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Located
in Western New York
state, USA, Versailles is about a 30 minute drive from Buffalo. The maps
below use a red circle to indicate the location of Versailles. These maps
are from the USGS
National Mapping Information service.
Location within the in United States
Location within New York
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1841
Map of the Village of Versailles by W. L. Stork. This map is referenced
in the 1854 Deed from Levi & Simeon
Brown to their brother Elisha. This map is available as 2 reverse image (that is
white on black) prints kept at the Deeds Records office in the Cattaraugus
County court house at Little Valley, NY. The image presented here is a
composite created from multiple photocopies of individual map sections. It is
interesting to note that this map shows a "Machinery Canal" along
Front Street. A canal is also shown in the same general area on the 1869
Beers Map (below).
(Note that the above image links to a large file - 1.5 MB)
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Versailles Village Map
as it existed in 1869. This map is in the
"ATLAS OF CATTARAUGUS COUNTY NEW YORK, From
actual Surveys & Official Records, COMPLIED & PUBLISHED BY D. G. BEERS
& CO., 95 Maiden Lane, New York, 1869., D.G. Beers. J.H. Goodhue.
E.F. Sanford." The red splats are not on
the original map. They have been added to indicated individuals connected
to the Brown and Jeffrey families. This image has been calibrated for use with a GPS
(Global Positioning System)
device and OziExplorer.
The Ozi MAP file and the JPG image
can be downloaded in this ZIP file.
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Orthophotograph
of Versailles from the Interactive
Mapping Gateway of the New York State GIS Clearinghouse.
If you click on this image, you download an image of moderate resolution ( file
size of 326KB). You can also get a 'high
resolution file here' (1.38MB). This digital orthophotography was enhanced as part of New York State's Y2K emergency preparedness planning effort.
Imagery presents ground conditions within the period 1994 through 1998.
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Planimetric Map of Versailles from the NYS
Department of Transportation. Additional
metadata is available for Cattaraugus
County, Code-009 from CUGIR
Work Group.
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U.S. Federal Environmental Protection
Agency Map
of Versailles from EnviroMapper.
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Versailles is home to the store
owned by Elisha and Will Brown. The store was located at Lat:42.51947
& Lon:-78.98770(Datum
WGS84) from
(MapBlast!©)
and the building remained the last time that I saw it
in 2000.
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Location of the
store owned by Elisha and Will Lincoln Brown (via MapBlast!©).
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The Magnetic Declination
for Versailles moved West over the entire 20th century. This chart was calculated
using the program
available from the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The numerical data used to plot the chart
is available as an Excel
spreadsheet. See the NOAA FAQ
for for further details on Magnetic Declination.
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Lawton
Station on the Erie R.R. in North Collins Twp., is where the Will L.
Brown family boarded the train for their move to Ohio in 1906. The
location of Lawton Station was at (approx) N42°32.2917 W78°56.095 (WGS84
Datum) as shown here on "Tunison's
railroad, distance, and township map of New York", The map was published in
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1898. This is a portion of the total map. This
portion shows Versailles. The complete map shows the entire state, relief
by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network. It
also includes a directory of business firms below the map and a list of counties
in upper left of map. The scale is 1:640,000. The REPOSITORY for this map is the Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650. CALL NUMBER G3801.P3 1898
.T8 RR 272; CONTROL NUMBER 98688531; DIGITAL ID g3801p rr002720
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1856
Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York by
David Vaughan prepared under the
direction of the Rail Road Commissioners, John S. Clark, William J. McAlpine,
James B. Swain. This is a portion of the total map. This portion
shows the Versailles area. The map was published in Albany, New York,
1856. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. The REPOSITORY for this map is the Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650. CALL NUMBER G3801.P3 1856
.V3 RR 262; CONTROL NUMBER 98688521; DIGITAL ID g3801p rr002620 urn:hdl:loc.gmd/g3801p.rr002620
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3801p.rr002620
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This 1825
map of the Versailles area is part of a larger map from the David
Rumsey Collection. The Short Title is: Map of the Western Part of
the State Of New York. The author is David H. Vance and J. Ogden Dey.
It was published in 1825 by Albany: John Ogden Dey. The original map is as
a scale of 1: 330,000. The Publication Reference is: P-Maps 509; cf
Streeter 3818. The Engraver / Printer was Balch, Rawdon & Co.
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1839 Map of New York
exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads &c. By David H.
Burr; (Late topographer to the Post Office.) Geographer to the House of
Representatives of the U.S. This is a portion of
the total map. This portion shows the Versailles area. The map was
published in London, 1839. Scale ca. 1:650,000. The REPOSITORY for this map is the Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650. CALL NUMBER G3800 1839
.B8 RR 259; CONTROL NUMBER 98688518; DIGITAL ID g3800 rr002590 urn:hdl:loc.gmd/g3800.rr002590
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3800.rr002590
The image on the right is a copy of the Legend from this map. (As
with all the images, Click on it for larger view.)
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1875 Map showing the Geneva
& Hornellsville Railroad and its connections. This is a portion of
the total map. This portion shows the Versailles area. The map was
published in New York, 1875. Scale 1:570,240. The REPOSITORY for this map is the Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650. CALL NUMBER G3801.P3 1875
.G17 RR 415; CONTROL NUMBER 98688666; DIGITAL ID g3801p rr004150 urn:hdl:loc.gmd/g3801p.rr004150
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3801p.rr004150
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The shape and
size of the Cattaraugus Reservation as it existed at the time of Elisah
and Will Brown was determined by an 1802
Cession of land from the Holland Land Company to the Seneca Nation. This map
is labeled "Bureau of American Ethnology" and "Eighteenth Annual
Report. PL. CLIV" See the documentation
for this land cession on the documents page of
this site. The North boundary of Versailles abuts the Reservation boundary.
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1869 D.G. Beers & Company
Atlas of Cattaraugus County New York. This map is on Page 73 of that
Atlas. This image has been calibrated for use with a GPS (Global Positioning
System) device and OziExplorer.
The Ozi MAP file and the JPG image
can be downloaded in this ZIP file.
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1866
Map of Evans Twp, Erie County shows the farm of Levi Brown in the SW 1/4
of Section 16. This map image is taken from the "New
Topographical Atlas of Erie County, N.Y.", published in Philadelphia,
by Stone & Stewart, in 1866. The farm house of Levi
& Lydia Brown was located in Sec 16, at
approximately N42°38.520' W078°58.205'
(WGS84).
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1880
Map of Evans Twp. Erie County, NY from the Beers (F.V.) and Company, "Illustrated historical atlas of Erie County, N.Y."
published in 1880. shows the farm of Levi Brown in the SW 1/4 of Section
16. His home was on what is now the Versailles Plank Road. One mile
to the northwest of Levi's home is the farm of "Mrs. C. Higley", in
the NE 1/4 of Sec. 26, . Her daughter, Nettie Higley, married George
Brown, the son of Levi and Lydia Brown. Her son, Corydon Higley, attended George
Brown's funeral. One mile south of Levi's home is the home of "E.B.
Train". Mrs. Emma Train lived here. She is the person that
wrote the poetry tributes for the obituaries of Levi
and George Brown.
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1880
Map of Brant Twp, Erie County. The meeting place of the "Friends of
Human Progress", known as "Tucker's Grove" is believed to have been
located on the property of "N. Tucker" in the North 1/2 of Section 11 of this township.
Its approx location would have been near: N42°35.622'
W78°57.739' (WGS84).
This map appears in the Illustrated historical atlas of Erie County, N.Y.",
published in 1880 by F. V. Beers & Company,
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This
Map of North Collins is from page 102 of
the New Century Atlas of Erie County, New York, published in 1909. The building
shown on the south side of Sherman Ave., just east of High St., was known as
"Forest Temple". It's approximate location was N42°35.704'
W78°55.942' (WGS84). It was the meeting
hall of the "Friends of Human Progress".
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Other Map Links:
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Named
Places via the Geographical
Locator at the University of Montana
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Microsoft
Terra Server Image Page
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Maptech
Map Server
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North
Collins Quad from the Cornell University Geospatial Information
Repository (CUGIR)
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North
Collins Quad from New
York State GIS Clearinghouse
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Terrafly
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Tiger Maps
U.S. Census Bureau, NAD83 datum and all maps are public domain
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