"'Deeds of the Valley, the Land That Became the Ordnance' is an impressively researched and richly detailed account of land ownership within the village of Alvira and surrounding areas -- Deckertown, Maple Hill, Somerset and Spring Garden -- of the White Deer Valley. Based on exhaustive research, the author studied thousands of documents to create 1500+ deed plots, to fully understand and document the tracts associated in the defined study area. This...