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Plat map of Garfield, (1910). Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company.
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Plat map of Garfield, (1910). Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company. |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu101 WSU 101 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,268 |
| Creator | Anderson Map Company. |
| Date | 1910 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Seattle, Wash. : Anderson Map Company |
| Description | 1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1". Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town incorporated in 1887, and was named by Tant after President James A. Garfield. Even before the plat was filed settlers began to build up the town. In 1883 the Giles Brothers built the first store there. One year later members constructed the... |
| Subject | Garfield (Wash.)--Maps; Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps; Northern Pacific Railroad; Columbia and Palouse Railroad; Tant, James B.; Garfield, President James A.; |
| Type | Maps; Plats |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Garfield |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Plat Book of Whitman County Washington Compiled and Published from actual Surveys and the County Records by Anderson Map Company Seattle, Wash 1910 |
