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Special List 29: Georgia

Special List No. 29

Georgia


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192. [Map of] Georgia, from the latest Authorities. Engraved for

     Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography [ca. 1796].

     1 inch to ca. 52 miles. 12 x 19. Manuscript. Includes

present States of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Shows towns,

Indian villages, roads, and trails. Also shows general locations

of Indian tribes. Filed as RG 75: Central Map File, 1372.

193. Map of the State of Georgia, Prepared from actual Surveys

     and other Documents, for Eleazer Early, By Daniel Sturges.

     Published & Sold By Eleazer Early, Savannah, Georgia . . .

     Engraved by Saml. Harrison, 1818.

     1 inch to 8 miles. 2 sections, each 46 x 28½. Towns, roads,

military posts, Indian villages. Existing counties and Indian

boundaries are shown in color. Tables list post offices,

statistics relating to the individual counties, and geological

information. (A similar map is filed in RG 77, as US 26.) Filed

as Ref. Coll.: Georgia, 1818 (SF).

194. [Map of] Georgia. 1818 (Date added in pencil in lower

     margin).

     1 inch to 50 miles. 10½ x 8½. Published. Towns, Indian

villages, roads, and physical features. "23" and "#4 S.D.C."

appear in the upper right comer. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Georgia,

1818 (SF).

195. Map of Georgia and Alabama By H. S. Tanner, 1827.

     1 inch to ca. 18 miles. 22½ x 28½. Annotated published.

Towns, roads, township and range numbers, and physical features.

Annotated apparently to show land offices and land districts in

Alabama. Part of Georgia along the boundary with Alabama is

omitted. Filed as RG 49: Old Map File, Alabama 6.

196. Map of Georgia & Alabama Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post

     Roads, Canals, Raft 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 (in color), mileages between post offices,

township and range numbers, forts, physical features, and parts

of adjoining States. Filed as RG 28: Burr Atlas, 7.

197. [Map of] Georgia. Entered according to act of Congress in

     the Year 1842, by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese in the

     Clerks office of the Southern District of New York.

     1 inch to ca. 25 miles. 17½ x 13½. Published. Towns,

counties, canals, railroads, physical features. State is shaded

green. Filed as Ref. Coll.: Georgia, 1842.

198. [Map of] Georgia's Improvt[s]. Prepared by A. H. Brisbane,

     Engineer . . . for Hon. J. C. Spencer, Secretary of War.

     [1842.]

     1 inch to ca. 18 miles. 22½ x 29½. Manuscript. Includes

Alabama. Sketch map showing some settlements, several railroad

lines, and remarks on crops and land characteristics. Additional

lines added in red. Also added are "points of supply," "circle of

defence," and "Health circle of cantonment for south-eastern

troops." Note added in red ink to title block states that the map

accompanied "letter of A. H. Brisbane of April 8, 1842, in case

in room 16." Filed as RG 77: US 374-55.

199. Map of the State of Georgia, Compiled Under the Direction of

     His Excellency George W. Crawford, By Wm. G. Bonner, Civil

     Engineer. Milledgeville. Published by Wm. G. Bonner. 1848.

     1 inch to 7 miles. 4 sections, each 30½ x 27. Counties

(color), towns, railroads, roads, colleges, and factories. Inset

maps of the cities of Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah.

Tables Show population (1845) figures for all counties for whites

and blacks, and a list of governors to 1847. Marginal

illustrations show some public buildings and colleges. Filed as

RG 77: US 140-2.

200. Map of the State of Georgia. Compiled By James R. Butts,

     Late Surveyor General. Macon, 1859. Printed, Colored, and

     Mounted By R. L. Barnes, Philadelphia.

     1 inch to 7 miles. 4 sections, each 32½ x 27. Counties,

roads, towns, railroads, factories, colleges. List of governors

and dates of their terms of office to 1857. Illustrations in

margins show various public buildings, educational institutions,

and scenic points. Filed as RG 77: N 28.

201. Map of Georgia & Alabama Representing Railways, Post-Roads,

     Population, And Agricultural Productions. Prepared at the

     Census Office. Under direction of Jos. C. G. Kennedy . . .

     [Annotated ca. 1861 to show population and agricultural

     figures.]

     1 inch to 10 miles. 2 sections, each 39 x 26. Annotated

published. Counties in Georgia and Alabama in color. Includes

small portions of adjoining States. Population and agricultural

production information is shown for each county. Population

figures show number of "Whites, Free Colored, Slaves, [and]

Military Males btwn 18 and 45 yrs of age." Agricultural figures

show amount of production of grains, cotton, and livestock. This

map appears to be a post route map annotated to show the above

information. Filed as RG 77: US 266.

202. Post Route Map of Georgia and Outline Map of South Carolina

     with adjacent parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,

     and Florida; Showing post offices with the intermediate

     distances and mail routes in operation on the 1st of April,

     1894.

     1 inch to 10 miles. 2 sections, each 43½ x 29. Published.

Frequency and types of mail service, mileages between post

offices, discontinued post offices, counties, towns, railroads,

and physical features. Post routes in color to show frequency of

service. Filed as RG 28: Regional Maps, Folder 27.

203. Post Route Map of the State of Georgia showing post offices

     with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation

     on the lst of January, 1917.

     1 inch to 8 miles. 2 sections, each 22½ x 36½. Published.

Frequency and types of mail service, discontinued post offices,

counties, towns, railroads, physical features, and parts of

adjoining States. Inset map of "Atlanta and Vicinity." 1 inch to

3 miles. Filed as RG 28: State Maps, Georgia 1917.

204. [Map of Georgia issued by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1916

     and reprinted in 1920.]

     1 inch to ca. 16 miles. 23 x 19½. Published. County names

and boundaries, towns and cities, steam and electric railroad

lines, and drainage features. Filed as RG 57: Published State

Maps, Georgia, 1920.

See also entry 4 in Alabama.

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