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Special List 29: List of Selected Maps of States and
Territories
Special List
No. 29
Virginia
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808. [Map of] Virginia . . . Descouvered and Described by Captayn
John Smith, 1606 [sic].
1 inch to ca. 15 miles. 25 x 31½. Photoprocessed. In lower
right corner, "Page 41 Smith." Shows King's houses and ordinary
houses, and names. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia, 1606.
809. A Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the
whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, [sic]
New Jersey, and North Carolina. Drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter
Jefferson in 1775 . . . Publish'd 12th May 1794, by Laurie &
Whittle.
1 inch to 10 miles. 31 x 48½. Copy, 4 sections, each 17 x
26. States (colonies) in color. County names, towns, roads, and
physical features. Bears inscription, "To the Right Honourable,
George Dunk, Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner; and to the
Rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable Commissioners, for
Trade and Plantations. This Map is most humbly Inscribed to their
Lordship's, By their Lordships' Most Obedient & most devoted
humble Servt., Thos. Jefferys." Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia,
1794.
810. [Map of] Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. By H. S. Tanner
. . . (from the American Atlas) . . . Engraved & Published
by H. S. Tanner, Philadelphia. Entered according to Act of
Congress, 20th day of Decr. 1820.
1 inch to ca. 18 miles. 22 x 31. Annotated published. Map
includes present State of West Virginia and parts of adjoining
States. Counties in Virginia and West Virginia (in color), roads,
towns, and physical features. Map is annotated to show additional
towns and certain roads in red ink. Filed as RG 77: US 161.
811. Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Exhibiting the Post
Offices, Post Roads, Canals, Rail Roads, &c. By David H.
Burr. (Late Topographer to the Post Office.) . . . Entered
according to the Act of Congress, July 10th, 1839.
1 inch to 10 miles. 4 sections, each 19 x 25½. Published.
Also shows counties, mileages between post offices, forts,
physical features, and parts of adjoining States. Filed as RG 28:
Burr Atlas, 5.
812. [Map of] Virginia [including West Virginia]. [ca. 1840.]
1 inch to 30 miles. 14 x 18. Published. Counties, major
towns, railroads, canals, and physical features. State shaded
yellow. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia, 1840.
813. Map of the State of Virginia, Containing the Counties,
Principal Towns, Railroads & All Other Internal
Improvements. Lithographed & Published by Ritchie &
Dunnavant . . . 1858.
1 inch to ca. 12 miles. 27 x 38½. Counties shown in color.
Map includes Maryland and Delaware as well as parts of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina. Virginia includes
present State of West Virginia. "Internal improvements" include
canals, different types of roads, and railroads completed and in
progress. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia, 1858.
814. A Map of the State of Virginia, Reduced from the Nine Sheet
Map of the State, in conformity to Law: by Herman Boye.
1828. Corrected by order of the Executive, by L. v
Buchholtz. 1859.
1 inch to 10 miles. 32 x 49½. Counties in Virginia (in
color), railroads, canals, towns, mills, mineral deposits,
factories, iron works, academies and colleges, churches, roads
(stage, turnpike, common), ferries, courthouses, "places
remarkable for military incidents," and physical features.
Virginia includes present State of West Virginia. Map also
includes Maryland, Delaware, and parts of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Tables list steamboat
routes, altitudes of mountains, and population (of "whites,
slaves, free blacks") of State in 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1859.
Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia, 1859.
815. Map of Virginia, Showing the distribution of its Slave
Population from the Census of 1860 . . . Washington, June
13, 1861.
1 inch to 20 miles. 22 x 30. Includes present state of West
Virginia. Names and boundaries of counties. Counties shaded
according to slave population, with those counties having the
lowest slave populations left unshaded. Tables list additional
population information. Map "Sold for the benefit of the sick and
wounded of the U.S. Army." Note in lower right corner states
"Presented to Lt. Col. Bache, Corps Topogl Engineers, by his
friend & Sert W R Palmer, Augt 31, 1861." Filed as RG 77: G 103.
816. Lloyd's Official Map of the State of Virginia. From Actual
surveys by order of the Executive, 1828 & 1859. Corrected
and Revised by J. T. Lloyd to 1862, from Surveys made by
Capt. W. Angelo Powell, of the U.S. Topographical Engineers
of Gen. Rosencrans' Staff.
1 inch to 10 miles. 31 x 47. Counties in Virginia (in
color), railroads, canals, towns, mills, mineral deposits,
factories, iron works, academies and colleges, churches, roads,
ferries, courthouses, "places remarkable for military incidents,"
and physical features. Virginia includes present State of West
Virginia. Map also includes Maryland, Delaware, and parts of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Tables
list steamboat routes, altitudes of mountains, and population (of
"whites, slaves, free blacks") of State in 1790, 1800, 1810, and
1859. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Virginia, 1862.
817. A Map of the State of Virginia, Reduced from the Nine Sheet
Map of the State, in conformity to Law: by Herman Boye.
1828. Corrected by order of the Executive, by L. v
Buchholtz. 1859. [Annotated to show geological formations,
1862.]
1 inch to 10 miles. 30½ x 47. Annotated photoprocessed.
Geological formations in color, keyed to a list added to the map.
Key also tells what type of road results from the various
geological formations. Letters A, B, C, and D show the general
locations of four coalfields. (Map) "Made for Maj. A. A.
Humphreys, Topgl Engineers, by Tho. S. Ridgway, formerly of the
Geological Survey of Va., March 1862." Map includes present State
of West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and parts of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Geological formations
are shown in Virginia, some in West Virginia, and western
Maryland (Garrett County). Also shows counties, railroads,
canals, towns, mills, mineral deposits, roads, churches,
factories, iron works, ferries, courthouses, academies and
colleges, and "places remarkable for military incidents." Tables
list steamboat routes, altitudes of mountains, and population (of
"whites, slaves, free blacks"). Filed as RG 77: G 74.
818. Map of the State of Virginia, Compiled from the best
authorities, and printed at the Coast Survey Office. A. D.
Bache, Supdt., 1862. . . . Lith. by Chas. G. Krebs.
1 inch to ca. 14 miles. 26 x 39. Published. Map includes
Maryland, Delaware, and parts of adjoining States. Virginia
includes present State of West Virginia. Railroad lines are shown
in red. Table lists distances between principal eastern cities
via railroad. Also shows towns, roads, canals, railroad stations,
and physical features. Filed as RG 23: Special Civil War Maps,
Folder 3.
819. Map of the State of Virginia, Compiled from the best
authorities, and printed at the Coast Survey Office. A. D.
Bache, Supdt., August 1863 . . . Lith. By Chas. G. Krebs.
1 inch to ca. 14 miles. 26 x 39. Published. Basic
information same as that shown in entry 817. Drainage in blue.
State boundaries shaded red. West Virginia shown as a separate
State. Also a December 1863 edition of this map. Filed as RG 23:
Special Civil War Maps, Folder 3.
820. Gray's New Topographical Map of Virginia and West Virginia,
By Frank A. Gray. . . . Copyright, 1877, by O. W. Gray &
Son.
1 inch to 15.78 miles. 18½ x 37. Published. Counties (in
color), towns, railroad lines, and physical features. Small inset
maps of the West Virginia "Pan-handle," southwestern Virginia,
"Environs of Harpers Ferry," "Hampton Roads and the Approaches,"
"Hypsometric Sketch of Virginia and West Virginia," and Norfolk
Harbor. Filed as RG 77: US 373-51.
821. Preliminary Post Route Map of the States of Virginia and
West Virginia, together with Maryland and Delaware [and
adjoining states] . . . by W. L. Nicholson, Topographer of
P.O. Dept., 1879 . . . Drawn by C. H. Poole . . . [revised]
up to date of Aug. 1, 1879.
1 inch to 8 miles. 4 sections, each 30 x 34. (2 copies of
each of the eastern sections.) Frequency and types of mail
service, mileage between post offices, discontinued post offices,
counties, towns, railroads, and physical features. Post routes
shown in color to illustrate frequency of service. Filed as RG
28: Regional Maps, Folder 4.
822. [Map of the] State of Virginia . . . Compiled [in the U.S.
Geological Survey] in 1914 in cooperation with the State of
Virginia.
1 inch to ca. 8 miles. 29½ x 63. Published. County names and
boundaries, towns and cities, steam and electric railroad lines,
and drainage features. Noted: "Advance sheet. Subject to
corrections." Filed as RG 57: Published State Maps, Virginia,
1914.
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