Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Plat map of Farmington, (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=wsu100 WSU 100 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,269 |
Creator | Anderson Map Company |
Date | 1910 2000 - 2002 |
Publisher | Seattle, Wash. : Anderson Map Company |
Description | 1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington. Scale 400'=1". In 1886, the Oregon and Washington Railway & Navigation Co. built track running from Portland into eastern Washington. The track ended at Farmington, named after Farmington, Minnesota, the hometown of plat filer George Washington Campbell Traux. Arriving there with a few other pioneers in the early 1870s, Traux took advantage of the availability of cheap land, and had a survey done of eighty acres for... |
Subject | Farmington (Wash.)--Maps; Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps; |
Type | Maps; Plats |
Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Farmington |
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 | Is part of Plat Book of Whitman County Washington Compiled and Published from actual Surveys and the County Records by Anderson Map Company Seattle, Wash 1910 |