The Kowallis family.
The Kowallis family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 1 land patent.
Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Wilhelm Kowallis, 1916
Federal land patent signed 9 March 1916 (BLM serial IDBL 0005509). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.