Atlas

1881 · 62541 — Neillsville & Wasau WI: Bussell & Holway Civil Engineers 1881. 8vo. 180 pp unpaginated. with double-page engraved title plat maps throughout primarily on facing recto & verso of leaves while some are overlapping and on next blank continuing w/ laid-in Township Range Plat Map MS on form 4-590 demarcating Government Land and dated March 6 1895 inserted into rear pocket annotations demarcating plat changes red ink markings of “Government Land†w/ V’s and other annotations on several of the maps in Marathon County by former real estate land surveyor. Contemporary black calf rebacked hinges restored w/ thumbing some edgewear still a VG- copy. First edition of this detailed and compact pocket plat map atlas issued by Bussell b. 1854 was a surveyor/civil engineer based out of nearby Neillsville Clark WI and his partner Holway for lands platted through Marathon County Wisconsin in the 19th-Century as the centrally located County opened for logging and settlement on lands driven by the Wisconsin Central Railroad and the Wisconsin Valley Railroad later the Wisconsin Valley Land Company. This exceptional reference provides names of all the original homesteaders and plat-holders as of the time of publication as well as demarcating houses churches schools mills U.S. Government lands state lands as well as the lines for the Lake Shore Traffic Co. Dundee Land Co. and development lands of the C.P. Haseltine Co. Worldcat locates only 1 physical copy at Library of Congress Wisconsin Historical Society does have a scanned searchable copy available online; See: Louise Marchetti History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens 1913. Bussell & Holway, Civil Engineers, unknown