L9 Heritage Quest, Sanborn Maps

In Heritage Quest, I researched my ancestors in the Revolutionary War documents, and found three. At first I only searched New York, where I knew they had originated, but when I searched "All," there were no more. I found the part they played in the colonial army, who they married, marriage licenses, the names of their children, when they died, pensions granted, judges, churches, and others involved, and more. When I sent the information to my mother, she gave me more history, and I think that once I can get on the AncestryLibrary, I can find out more. Since I only searched Revolutionary War documents, I think I could search other places in Heritage Quest.

In Sanborn Maps, I looked at Custer. The earliest map was 1891, yet so many things were already familiar. The three main streets were Crook, Custer, and Washington heading E-W and 4th-7th heading N-S; Custer had at some time been renamed to Rushmore Road, but after looking at the available maps, I didn't yet find when that was changed. I confirmed something I had read: that Custer and Crook street were made wider to accommodate the turning of a wagon pulled by oxen. Even then, it stated that those streets would be 120 ft., while others were 100 ft. Even on the earliest map, the court house, which is now a historic museum that houses the museum, was present. On the 1915 map, there was a movie theater, and even on the earlier maps, there were 2 grocery stores, as there are now. I had read that there were 10,000 people in Custer at one time (just before the gold rush) (today there are 1800), but I didn't see that many houses represented. To support all of the grocery, mercantile, and lumber yards, though, there would have had to have been more people. Maps were able to be enlarged and moved from east to west and from north to south.