Have you ever used the Fendol Bevers Map , created in 1871, for your genealogy research? I use it all the time. So much so, in fact, that I consider Fendol Bevers to be my genealogy BFF from the past. Bevers was the City Engineer of Raleigh. In the early 1870's, He surveyed all the townships of Raleigh in preparation for the 1870 Census.  source This blogpost came to be because of a quirky discovery that occurred while using the map the other day. I was trying to remember where Oak Grove township was within Wake County. I had not seen it mentioned in a good long time, but needed to pin that down to solve another puzzle. I looked at progressively older maps and finally found Oak Grove township mapped on the wonderful Fendol Bevers map.  It turns out that sometime prior to 1890, Oak Grove and a portion of Cedar Fork townships of Wake County were carved off in the  creation of Durham County.  When you need to look up a location referenced in the northwest corner of...