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Plat map of Tekoa, (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 Tekoa, (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=wsu147 WSU 147 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,325 |
| 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 Tekoa. Scale: 400'=1". Tekoa's first settler, Mr. Frank P. Connell, erected a post office at his trading post in 1888. That same year, Mr. Daniel Traux platted forty acres of land into a townsite and Tekoa incorporated in 1889. At first the community was known as Fork of the Creek (Hangman Creek), but Mr. Traux's wife looked out from her porch one day to find a sea of tents. It reminded her of a story in the... |
| Subject | Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps; Tekoa -- Maps; Connell, Frank P.; Fork of the Creek Wash.; Northern Pacific Railroad; Mr. Daniel Traux |
| Type | Maps; Plats |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Tekoa; Hangman Creek |
| 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 |
