Lake County 1852

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From S.D. King, Map of the state of Indiana compiled from the United States surveys by S. D. King, Washington City; exhibiting the sections & fractional sections; the situation & boundaries of counties; the location of cities villages & post offices canals, rail roads and other internal improvements, carefully laid down (New York, 1852), via the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.

For my purposes, the Library of Congress collection of Indiana maps is not a resource on par with the University of Alabama collection, but it has a few interesting ones.

On the one excerpted above, I particularly liked the mapmaker's descriptions. South of the Lake Michigan shoreline and following its contour, he wrote: "Marshy Pine Timber and Sand Hills." Along the Calumic River, just north of Liverpool: "Impassable Morass." To the southeast of that, "Lake George/Water from 1 to 8 feet deep." To the east, "Twenty Mile Prairie"; further south, "Rolling Prairie." At the bottom of this part, "Deep Marsh & Timber Islands."

No particular description for the Ainsworth area, however, and no sign of an Ainsworth community.