Trying my best to locate the “The Green Hotel “ in Rives NWTN which I believe may be on my property if anyone has experience with maps and old photos

[Punk0Munk]

If anyone is interested in looking at this old railroad town that is sadly neglected now that the railroad is not as busy I have found a book with 100+ photos any one interested in the book is free to message me this is my biggest passion is this little towns history very interesting and Rich history

 

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[The Lonely Explorer]

If your state is anything like mine, there's loads of old platmaps and ownership data. Also, search google for old historical photgraphs. My states historical society has a website that is easy to navigate and has search functions. I've had great luck in past narrowing down where even outhouses have been built, all the way back to the mid 1800s.

Fastest, easiest way is going to be searching and viewing a late 1870s or 1880s plat map of your area. If it shows a big building on that spot of the land, it narrows it down. Some maps mark and index key spots like hotels and banks, churches etc.

What county, town are you in? I'd be happy to help try and find some maps in my spare time.

 

[Punk0Munk]

If your state is anything like mine, there's loads of old platmaps and ownership data. Also, search google for old historical photgraphs. My states historical society has a website that is easy to navigate and has search functions. I've had great luck in past narrowing down where even outhouses have been built, all the way back to the mid 1800s.

Fastest, easiest way is going to be searching and viewing a late 1870s or 1880s plat map of your area. If it shows a big building on that spot of the land, it narrows it down. Some maps mark and index key spots like hotels and banks, churches etc.

What county, town are you in? I'd be happy to help try and find some maps in my spare time.

Rives, Obion county I have a few maps but nothing that shows I have picture of it besides the (now ruins of) a home beside mine currently

 

[robertk]

There is a 1951 topo map of Rives here. It shows the buildings along the streets, and the locations should be reasonably accurate. The oldest aerial photo I can see is 1958 (historicaerials.com).

Rough place, apparently.

It went up for sale in 1908, and the stabbing above was in 1912. I don't see it mentioned in the county newspaper after 1914.

 

[Punk0Munk]

There is a 1951 topo map of Rives here. It shows the buildings along the streets, and the locations should be reasonably accurate. The oldest aerial photo I can see is 1958 (historicaerials.com).

Rough place, apparently.

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It went up for sale in 1908, and the stabbing above was in 1912. I don't see it mentioned in the county newspaper after 1914.

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If your state is anything like mine, there's loads of old platmaps and ownership data. Also, search google for old historical photgraphs. My states historical society has a website that is easy to navigate and has search functions. I've had great luck in past narrowing down where even outhouses have been built, all the way back to the mid 1800s.

Fastest, easiest way is going to be searching and viewing a late 1870s or 1880s plat map of your area. If it shows a big building on that spot of the land, it narrows it down. Some maps mark and index key spots like hotels and banks, churches etc.

What county, town are you in? I'd be happy to help try and find some maps in my spare time.

If you or anyone is interested in looking at the book I mentioned it has the most accurate information of the history lot to do with the M&O and IC railways message me for the pdf version too much history to just disappear

 

[Punk0Munk]

There is a 1951 topo map of Rives here. It shows the buildings along the streets, and the locations should be reasonably accurate. The oldest aerial photo I can see is 1958 (historicaerials.com).

Rough place, apparently.

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It went up for sale in 1908, and the stabbing above was in 1912. I don't see it mentioned in the county newspaper after 1914.

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As my home was built in 1945 you made my hunt for the hotel even more exciting, bottle pit as to be somewhere

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Soil surveys with maps go back pretty far and often show structures.