Cranberry Township Historical Society

The Depreciation Lands in Cranberry Township

The table below contains a rough layout of the Depreciation Lands survey tracts in Cranberry Township. Based upon a map of Allegheny County that has numbered lots, the numbering of the lots in Alexander's and Nicholson's parts of District 3 were determined for Cranberry by continuing the numbering pattern demonstrated in Allegheny County on into Butler County. Note that Alexander and Nicholson did not use the same method to number their respective territories. Information on Douglass's section of District 3 does not seem to be properly indexed and is going to take a little work to figure out.

At the center of each cell in the table below is a lot number followed by either an F or an R. Each respectively is a link to the front or rear side of the survey page for that lot. Note that the cell size in the table bears no relationship to the lot size, and that Alexander's and Nicholson's sections do not usually line up with each other at the horizontal boundaries as depicted in the table. Soon, the lots will be laid out more accurately onto the 1874 township map to get a better idea of their position.