Very Early Map of N&W Territory (... Like 1755 ! )

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Yeah, that is a good find Mr. Burnett. Wow, it looks like it is still route
11 between Fort Chiswell & Wyethville, not even 81 & 77,  and they are
still working on the West Virginia Turnpike !

 Cool map. I have always liked maps since I was a kid.
Used to drive my old man crazy, He would get a new map from the Esso
station in town, and it had Interstate highways with two black lines & a
red center. For proposed or under construction, the red was broken or
intermittent.  I would take a red pencil and fill in that broken red
section and complete the interstate. Had to have a sharp pencil to make it
match.
I-79 was not completed around Pittsburgh when we showed up in 1972 !  I had
some explaining to do.
Yeah that's when I got my own set of maps!

Have a good one!
Rob ervine
Fairlawn VA.
 *Have you considered Rhubarb?*


On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 5:09 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> In studying the history of railroads, early maps are helpful by showing
> roads in existence at the time the railroads were built, and often canals,
> stage routes and other features.
>
> Recently I found in the Library of Congress a 1755 map titled Map of
> British and French Dominions in North America 1755, which gives an early
> view of our particular area of interest, a century before railroad
> construction began.  The accuracy of the explorers and cartographers, armed
> with little more than a sketchbook and a compass, is remarkable.  You can
> very easily find on this map any spot you like in Virginia.  For almost
> everything east of the Blue Ridge, they have the proportions nearly
> accurate.  You can easily find the Great Wagon Road and present Lynchburg
> Turnpike passing through Buford's Gap (Blue Ridge.)  And playing with the
> charming Indian names is pure delight.
>
> The raw scan file from the L.C. was almost a gigabyte in size and had not
> been edited for color, brightness, levels, etc.  I edited the file, cropped
> it to 20" width and saved it as a PDF at 300 ppi, file size 7.5 megs.   The
> fine print gets a little ragged when viewed at 400% but, shucks, for
> something going on 300 years old, I ain't complainin' !
>
> I put it up on Google Drive, from whence you may download it with the
> following link.  Or, if you are a purist, you can download it yourself from
> the L.C. and wing it with your own edit !
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hcYYUmK0qwzTjOE2n797mRltqA8g39D5/view?usp=sharing
>
> -- abram burnett
> Go Green !  Eat Synthetic Turnips !
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