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Plat map of Colfax (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 Colfax (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=wsu146 WSU 146 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,327 |
| Creator | Anderson Map Company |
| Date | 1910 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Seattle, Wash. : Anderson Map Company |
| Description | 1 map: col., 69 x 36 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Colfax. Scale: 400'=1". The farming town of Colfax (located thirteen miles northwest of Pullman) was named in 1872 in honor of President Grant's Vice President, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, by one of the town's earliest settlers--Mr. J.A. Perkins. (Perkins' first name for the area, Belleville, was in honor of his girlfriend at the time. He changed the name when they were no longer together.) Colfax incorporated in 1879 and began as a... |
| Subject | Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps; Colfax, Wash.--Maps; Belleville, Wash.; Colfax, Schuyler; Perkins, J.A. |
| Type | Maps; Plats |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Colfax |
| 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 |
