Translated Slownik Geograficzny Entries - LATOSZYN
Latoszyn: a village in Ropczycki
County (powiat), belonging to the Roman Catholic parish, county court and post office in
Debica, some .7 kilometers away, lying on the right bank of the Wisloka, near a government
road, at 39 degrees 3' east longitude from Ferro and 50 degrees 1'13" north latitude.
The southern side of the village has a public bath house fed by a sulphur spring, flowing
in a dale 214 meters by army measurement above sea level. The flowing spring is surrounded
by a tall growing forest, mainly to the south by Wielki forest 347 meters above sea level,
to the east by Sowia mountain ranging from 342 meters decreasing toward the north at 252
meters above sea level. To the north of the village is the Wisloka and to the south are
farms known as Latoszynki.
The village has 687 Roman Catholic inhabitants, of which 92 reside on the larger estate. Mineral baths were long known as Kuropatnicki in 1786 located in Latoszyn.
"The Morski village home, famous for its excellent mineral waters, had not one enclosure around its property, even though it was near the brick road from Vienna to Lwow." Now near the spring is a forest ranger's house and a few houses. The water was used by surrounding inhabitants.
The greater area of land is owned by A. Morawski and
has 419 farms, 25 meadows and fields, 78 pastures and 222 morgs of forest; the smaller
area has 380 farms, 27 meadows and fields, 47 pastures and 57 morgs of forest. From the
north and west Latoszyn is flanked by the Wisloka, on the south it is bordered by
Podegrodzie and on the east by Wolica and Gumniska foks.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny translated by Michael Kurtin (This information was published between 1880 and 1902 and gives a view of this locality during that time frame). Photographs by James A. Derheim, European Focus Photography.