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For the TRUE history buff, this is particularly neato. It's a map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana. From the Library of Commerce, this map shows the present-day…

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For the TRUE history buff, this is particularly neato. It's a map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana. From the Library of Commerce, this map shows the present-day Sabine and DeSoto Parishes in eastern region of the Sabine River. Names of places and features in Spanish. Original map was a pen-and-ink and watercolor. The title was derived from The Luso-Hispanic world in maps, 1999. This Spanish map of the site of Las Ormigas land grand later known as the Arroyo Hondo grand includes streams, vegetation ... At time of map, this was an area of dispute between the United States and Spain. NOT: copy annotated in pencil on verso: "Los Ormigas grant" corrected to "Arroyo Hondo grant" in letter of Mr. A. T. Witbeck's. July 2, 1927 and May 31, 1927.
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For the TRUE history buff, this is particularly neato. It’s a map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana. From the Library of Commerce, this map shows the present-day Sabine and DeSoto Parishes in eastern region of the Sabine River. Names of places and features in Spanish. Original map was a pen-and-ink and watercolor. The title was derived from The Luso-Hispanic world in maps, 1999. This Spanish map of the site of Las Ormigas land grand later known as the Arroyo Hondo grand includes streams, vegetation … At time of map, this was an area of dispute between the United States and Spain. NOT: copy annotated in pencil on verso: “Los Ormigas grant” corrected to “Arroyo Hondo grant” in letter of Mr. A. T. Witbeck’s. July 2, 1927 and May 31, 1927.