American Place Names of Long Ago A Republication of the Index to Cram's
By Gilbert S. Bahn.
Description
George Cram's Unrivaled Atlas of the World contains an index of over 100,000 place names of "every county, city, town, village, and post-office in the United States [showing] the population of the same according to the Census of 1890." This index is of critical importance to the genealogist, for most genealogical research takes place on the county level, and in Cram's index all 100,000 places--large and small--are tied to a specific county. Furthermore, when you consider how many nineteenth-century place names have changed or disappeared in the intervening years, and tha...
ISBN(s)
0806315571, 9780806315577
