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Title: Antebellum Farm-Settlement Patterns: A Three-Level Approach to Assessing the Effects of Soils

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Different soil classes offered varying economic results for farmers. The use of multiple data sets to analyze the connection between soils, economic benefits, and settlement patterns at three geographical levelsthe five states of the Old Northwest, the sixty-eight counties in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and the individual farms in one mid-Michigan countytends to confirm that soils were a significant motivating factor in the locational decisions of antebellum farmers at the state, county, and intra-county levels of the north-central United States during the mid-nineteenth century.

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Authors: Mitchell, Robert E.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Issue: 3

Volume: 41

Pages: 393-420

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