Map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana

[1800–1809]

Scale not given

Spanish

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress Collection

• Sabine Parish (La.)--Maps, Manuscript
• De Soto Parish (La.)--Maps, Manuscript
• Land grants--Louisiana--Sabine Parish--Maps
• Land grants--Louisiana--De Soto Parish--Maps

• De Soto (county)
• Louisiana
• North and Central America
• Sabine (county)
• United States

1 ms. map : col. ; 47 x 20 cm.

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• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows the present-day Sabine and DeSoto Parishes in eastern region of the Sabine River, Louisiana.
• Pen-and-ink and watercolor.
• Title derived from The Luso-Hispanic world in maps, 1999.
• Mounted on cloth backing.
• 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.
• Copy annotated in pencil on verso: "Los Ormigas grant" corrected to "Arroyo Hondo grant" in letter of Mr. Witbeck's. July 2, 1927 and May 31, 1927.
• Names of places and features in Spanish.