366 pages with 113 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Bossier Parish, Louisiana, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 4760 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 49 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s50 1840s1055 1850s727 1860s1057 1870s54 1880s453 1890s511 1900s455 1910s219 1920s143 1930s13 1940s3 1950s12 1960s3 What Cities and Towns are in Bossier Parish, Louisiana (and in this book)? Adner, Airline Park Estates, Alden Bridge, Antrim, Arkana, Atkins, Barso, Bellaire, Bellevue, Benton, Bodcau, Bodcau Park, Bolinger, Bossier City, Brookhaven Estates, Brownlee, Brownlee Estates, Caplis, Carriage Oaks, Carterville, Cloverdale, Coleman Park, Collinsburg, Cooterville, Country Place, Crestwood Heights, Curtis, Dogwood Acres, Dogwood Estates, Dogwood Forest, Dogwood Hills, Dogwood Park, Dukedale, Eastwood, Elm Grove, Espanita Forest, Espanita Village, Ferguson, Fillmore, Fosters, Glendale, Golden Meadows, Green Acres, Greenacres Place, Happy Meadows, Haughton, High Island, Hinkle, Holly Ridge, Honore, Hughes, Ivan, Knot Point, Koran, Lagas, Lela, Leslie, Linton, Magenta, Mayers, McDade, Meadowview Park, Merrywoods, Midway, Mimosa Gardens, Morameal, Morris, Mot, Ninock, Oak Thicket Acres, Oakland, Palmetto, Parkland Village, Pecan Park, Plain Dealing, Poole, Princeton, Red Chute, Redland, River Bend, Rocky Mount, Shady Park, Sligo, South Merrywoods, Southern Gardens, Southern Terrace, Southgate Estates, Swan Lake, Swindleville, Tall Timbers, Taylortown, Vanceville, Wafer Forest, Waller, Wardview, West Gate Terrace, Whitehurst, Willow Chute