General Land Office Record of the Week

This week’s record is a patent issued in 1800, but tells a story that started years before. John Cleves Symmes, born in 1742, became a...

Abraham Lincoln is most well-known for being the United States' 16th President and Commander-in-Chief during the Civil War, ending slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation, and...

This week's Record of the Week comes to us from May 1, 1869 and depicts Virginia City, Montana. Once a booming mining town and now...

Our record this week is the original survey plat for Township 2 South 5 West of the Mount Diablo Principal Meridian. Approved April 19, 1864...

This week we take a look at the historic Salmon River in Idaho, which flows through such treacherous conditions that a stretch of it has...