Map of Galveston Island Lots. by Robert Trimble and William Lindsey - 1879

EARLY MAP OF WEST GALVESTON ISLAND

[Texas] [Cartography] Map of Galveston Island Lots. Galveston, Texas: Clarke & Courts. [1879-1900?] Map 55.4 x 33.2 cm on sheet 60.5 x 38 cm. Map Surveyed by Robert Trimble and William Lindsey. Fold splits, edge splits, stains, else very good.

OCLC shows no holdings. Rosenberg Library has a copy. Rare Book Hub has no auction or catalog listings. Morrison's Nineteenth Century Texana has no listings. The Texas General Land office has no information on this map. William F. Lindsey, surveyor and founder of San Marcos, was born on May 17, 1801 in Jefferson County, Georgia. He became a farmer and gold prospector and moved to Texas in 1836. While prospecting in Texas, Lindsey met Robert Trimble, and the two of them eventually became the surveyors of Galveston Island. The Texas Secretary of the Treasury, under the authority of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, had the responsibility of selling individual lots of land. The treasury hired Lindsey and Trimble to survey the island, and they completed it in 1837. – Handbook of Texas. This appears to be the map that resulted from that survey. As it was printed by Clarke & Courts in Galveston, it could not be before the firm adopted that name in 1879. The Rosenberg Library has no information recorded regarding its copy. A very rare map, representing an interesting chapter of the early Texas Republic, when it was looking to raise money by selling land.