Colonel Maxwell Birthplace on East End of Plaingrove Township

Historic 1872 Warrentee Map with Earliest Landowners in Plaingrove Township; with Google Earth Aerial Photograph Overlay showing approximate property boundaries.  Approximately 1,000 acres, historic dairy farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Maxwell (Col. Norman J. Maxwell's grandfather), earliest land owner of this land in Plaingrove Twp, Lawrence County, PA; shows land boundaries with McKee land to North, McCune land to South and Miles land to West; Butler County to the East.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonel Maxwell Birthplace on East End of Plaingrove Township

Google Earth aerial showing former approximate property boundaries with north boundary measurement for scale (400 rods= approx 1,650 feet) and location of historic homestead built in 1832

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colonel Maxwell Birthplace on East End of Plaingrove Township

1860 Census Map showing Property as R. Maxwell.  R. Maxwell is Robert Maxwell, Norman J. Maxwell's older brother who inherited the property from their father William Maxwell who inherited the property from his father James Maxwell.

Colonel Maxwell Birthplace on East End of Plaingrove Township

Google Earth aerial showing beautiful farmland as it looks today, not all that different from the way it looked in the 19th century