Svea Land Colony

The Land

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Silverhill Map.
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Saint Stephens Meridian
Township 6 South
Range 3 East
Section 03

Saint Stephens Meridian
Township 6 South
Range 3 East
Section 02
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Photo of Section 10 map Photo of Section 11 map
Saint Stephens Meridian
Township 6 South
Range 3 East
Section 10
Saint Stephens Meridian
Township 6 South
Range 3 East
Section 11


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SILVERHILL TOWN MAP SURVEY
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Visit the pages below to continue reading about the Svea Land Colony.

The Svea Land Colony

The Company

The Idea

The Men

The Land


Written by Debbie Owen
December 2022

Resources

Ancestry website. Census records. Family trees.
https://www.ancestry.com/

Baldwin County, Alabama Online Record Search. Deeds and Records.
https://baldwin.al.publicsearch.us/

Baldwin County, Alabama Online Record Search. All Records.
https://open.baldwincountyal.gov/

Ernst Wilhelm Olson, History of the Swedes of Illinois, Part II. (Engberg Holmberg Pub. Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908)

Find a Grave website. Dates of birth and death.
https://www.findagrave.com/

Lilly Setterdahl, Memories Preserved, Scandinavians in Alabama, Vol. II. (Johnson's Valley Printers Verona, MO 65769, 1992)
https://www.silverhillala.com/memories.html

Newspapers website. The Fairhope Courier, and The Onlooker.
https://www.newspapers.com/

U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, The Official Federal Land Records Site. Images of federal land title records issued since 1820.
https://glorecords.blm.gov/