Title
Detail of Map of Plantations in Carroll Parish...and Issaquena County...ca. 1863
Date
ca. 1863
Description
Detail of Map of Plantations in Carroll Parish, Louisiana and Issaquena County, Mississippi, Goodrich Division, Skipwith District, ca. 1863. No date appears on the map, but it may have been used during 1863 when plantations began to be leased in the area. Numerous plantations and owners match with information from the summer of 1863.
Details shown on the map include houses, slave quarters, and cotton gins, landowners, plantation names, and acreage. In a few locations are notations for "proposed stockades." The purpose of such stockades is unknown.
Each plot of land on the map bears a number, beginning on the southern (bottom) edge of the map and moving northward. Two numbering schemes are used, one in Louisiana and one in Mississippi. It is not know the purpose of these numbers, but if this map was used to aid in the leasing of plantations, such numbers may have been an easier and more efficient way to identify specific properties, particularly because most lessees would have been coming from outside of the region, and because some landowners owned more than one individual plot of land.
Locations include: Lake Providence and Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana; and Skipwith's Landing in Mississippi.
Plantations or landowners who played a role in the Milliken's Bend story include: Amanda Stone, noted as plantation #4 in lower left, mother of diarist Kate Stone; Horace Tibbetts; Transylvania; Wilton; Stamboul; and the Morgan and Keene estates, managed by Tibbetts.
Details shown on the map include houses, slave quarters, and cotton gins, landowners, plantation names, and acreage. In a few locations are notations for "proposed stockades." The purpose of such stockades is unknown.
Each plot of land on the map bears a number, beginning on the southern (bottom) edge of the map and moving northward. Two numbering schemes are used, one in Louisiana and one in Mississippi. It is not know the purpose of these numbers, but if this map was used to aid in the leasing of plantations, such numbers may have been an easier and more efficient way to identify specific properties, particularly because most lessees would have been coming from outside of the region, and because some landowners owned more than one individual plot of land.
Locations include: Lake Providence and Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana; and Skipwith's Landing in Mississippi.
Plantations or landowners who played a role in the Milliken's Bend story include: Amanda Stone, noted as plantation #4 in lower left, mother of diarist Kate Stone; Horace Tibbetts; Transylvania; Wilton; Stamboul; and the Morgan and Keene estates, managed by Tibbetts.
Creator
A. McFarland
Source
Permalink to full map at National Archives website: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26465536 NAID: 26465536
Contributor
"Map of Plantations in Carroll Parish, Louisiana and Issaquena County, Mississippi, Goodrich Division, Skipwith District," Maps of Captured and Abandoned Properties series, RG 56 General Records of the Department of the Treasury, National Archives II, Cartographic Branch, College Park, MD.
Rights
Access and use unrestricted, per National Archives website.
Language
English
Type
Image
Identifier
NARASkipwithMap
Coverage
1860-1865
1866-1869
Original Format
Map