The Founding of the Homeplace
Oak Springs Town Plats and Subsequent Purchases
The green hill in the valley
From the forthcoming short story collection:
“American Centennial at the Homeplace: The Founding (1833-1876)”
Part IV.
Oak Springs Town Plot Land Exchanges [You can reference the maps, posted last week, to identify the locations of the properties.]
Oak Springs
Town Plat and subsequent transactions
The initial Town Plat consisted of 26 blocks of 2 1/2
acres each. Each block was designated with a letter. Each block consisted of 4
numbered lots.
Central Avenue split the town plat north and south;
two block to the east, divided by 1st Ave. E. and two blocks to the west,
divided by 1st Ave. W. The eastern and western boundaries were therefore 2nd
Ave E. and 2nd Ave W.
Patton Street ran east and west just north of the
General Store. This left two blocks to the south, divided by First Street,
South. The southern boundary of the town plat was designated Second Street,
South. To the north, separating each set of blocks, were: First Street, Second
Street, etc. This made the northern boundary Fourth Street.
Jake Patton retained ownership of Blocks K, O, S, R,
and Q.
Owen Olson retained ownership of Block Z
In Nov 1867, the town council purchased six block from
Jake Patton directly north of the existing town plat and extending two blocks
to the east. The blocks numbered from the west, were: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, and
FF.
Sale of
lots:
1.
Sep 1848 - Robert
Baldridge - Block N, Lots 3 & 4.
2.
Sep 1848 - Jake
Patton - Block W, Lot 1, and Block T, Lot 1
3.
Sep 1848 - Owen
Olson - Block Y, Lot 2 and Lot 4
4.
Sep 1848 - Victor
Campbell - Block W, Lot 3 and Lot 4
5.
Sep 1848 - Hugh
Truesdale - Block W, Lot 2, and Block L, Lot 1 and Lot 3
6.
Jun 1850 -
Percival Jones - Block N, Lot 2
7.
Jul 1850 -
Jonathan Ames - Block X, Lot 1 and Lot 3
8.
Jul 1850 - Wesley
Mathison - Block X, Lot 2 and Lot 4
9.
Nov 1850 - Ames
& Mathison RE - Block J, Lot 4
10.
Feb 1851 -
Percival Jones - Block N, Lot 1 and Block M Lot 2
11.
Feb 1851 - Ames
& Mathison RE - Block J, Lot 2
12.
May 1851 - Gideon
Inman - Block J, Lot 1
13.
Jan 1851 - Oak
Springs Bank - Block G, Lot 3
14.
Jun 1857 - Levi
Weston - Block L, Lot 2 and Lot 4
15.
Mar 1860 - Jerry
Potts - Block J, Lot 3
16.
BREAK DURING
WARTIME
17.
Oct 1865 - Owen
Olson (from Jake Patton) - Block S, Lot 1 and Lot 2, Block T, Lot 1, and Block
Q, Lot 4
18.
Oct 1865 - Land
Office (from Ames and Mathison RE) - Block J, Lot 2 and Lot 4
19.
Oct 1865 - Land
Office (from Jonathan Ames) - Block X, Lot 1 and Lot 3
20.
Oct 1865 - Land
Office (from Wesley Mathison) - Block X, Lot 2 and Lot 4
21.
Apr 1867 - Land
Office (from Percival Jones) - Block M, Lot 2, and Block N, Lot 1 and Lot 2
22.
Oct 1867 - Ralph
Campbell (from Land Office/Jones) - Block N, Lot 1 and Lot 2
23.
Nov 1867 - Block
C designated by town council as a Town Square
24.
Nov 1867 - City
planned to build new Town Hall on Block CC, Lot 3
25.
Nov 1867 - Oak
Springs Bank - exchanged Block G, Lot 3, for Lot 2, Block B, for new stone bank
26.
Nov 1867 - Oak
Creek Valley Livery and Stable - working with Jake Patton and Hugh Truesdale,
exchanged their interests in Block K - where the livery had previously been
located - and Lots 1 and 3 of Block L, for Block M and Lots 3 and 4 of Lot I
27.
Nov 1867 - Ace
Donagan (from Jake Patton) - Block O, Lot 3
28.
Nov 1868 - J.W.
Norton - Block I, Lot 1
29.
Nov 1868 - G.W.
Mason - Block I, Lot 2
30.
Feb 1869 - Jerry
Potts - Block J, Lot 4
31.
Jul 1869 -
Sylvester Preston - Block K, Lot 3 and Lot 4
32.
Sep 1870 -
Weston-McDonald Freight Line - Block BB, Lot 2
33.
Oct 1870 - Joshua
Cox - Block T, Lot 2
34.
Apr 1871 - Ivan
Toll - Block G, Lot 3
35.
May 1875 - Jacobi
Inman - Block F, Lot 1
To be continued... next Friday.
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May we each have a Homeplace, if only in our hearts!
Dr. Bill ;-)
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