Cranberry Township Historical Society

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commision has painstakingly posted thousands upon thousands of original land surveys for the state of Pennsylvania. There are a number of indexes to the surveys, and as you begin to look for the surveys for any one place, you immediately find that the information is scattered all over the place and is tricky to find. We have begun organizing the surveys into a table so that you can easily view the surveys for Cranberry Township. The surveys in Alexander's and Nicholson's parts of District 3, which equates to roughly 85-90% of the township, are posted. We will eventually update this page to tell the Depreciation Lands story. Until then, you will find the survey table here.

The lots surveyed and returned by Ephraim Douglas do not appear on the Depreciation Land Register because no sales were made of the tracts he surveyed in District 3 under the Depreciation Land program. It was not until after the lands were opened to general settlement in 1792 that the lands within his survey were sold. Thus the eastern 10-15% of the township is going to take some work to find.