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Shows New York state from Westchester County to Lake Erie, and part of northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The line was chartered on April 24, 1832. See entry 404.
Map of the eastern United States between the Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi River. Shows drainage, place names and the railroad network. Chartered March 17, 1851. Line completed in 1858. consolidated in April 1871, forming part of the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad.
Covers the United States from the Mississippi River east, and from Maine to northern Florida. Includes drainage, relief by hachures, place names, state boundaries, canals, and the railroad network.
Outline map of the northeastern and north-central states showing major drainage, relief by hachures in Ohio, place names, canals, and the railroad network. Chartered in 1848. Consolidated to form the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad. See entry 534.
Map of the coast between San Francisco and San Jose showing roads, property owners, streams, and relief by hachures.
Detailed strip map from rights of way surveys showing the location of the line between Sunbury and Erie and the counties through which the line traverses. Relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns along the line are shown. Railroad stations and distances in 10-mile intervals are indicated.
Map of parts of western Pennsylvania and New York showing drainage, coal fields, iron ore areas, and fire clay areas, furnaces, and oil wells. Railroads are color coded.
Includes a table of distances from Boston to New York. Shows rail lines from Burlington, Vt., south to Bellows Falls in Windham Co., Vt., and includes drainage and topography on both sides of the line. Indicates county and township boundaries. Chartered November 1, 1843. Name changed November 6, 1847.
Strip map of the western United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean showing relief by hachures, drainage, minerals, cities and towns, and forts. Includes completed and proposed railroads.
Topographical strip map between Council Bluffs, Iowa, to west of Great Salt Lake, Utah, showing located and experimental lines and profile of grades.
Includes area from Chattahoochee River between Warsaw and Cambelltown, and west to the Tennessee boundary. Shows cities, townships, roads, drainage, and relief by hachures. The 138-mile route was opened in 1850.
Map of western New England showing drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, and cities and towns. Chartered in 1845.
Map of Baltimore, Ann Arundel, Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington counties, Md, showing drainage, roads, and important place names. [From published bibliography]
Map of part of Ohio indicating the located and explored railroad lines along the Milford and Chillicothe Turnpike. Shows "Air Lines computed by C. D. Jaques Esqr. C. E. from Hillsborough to Chillicothe." [From published bibliography]
"President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad. The Union Pacific was to lay track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska, toward Ogden, Utah; the Central Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California. The Union Pacific began construction on December 2, 1863. This map, submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan on September 18, 1865, by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers, shows the different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska surveyed for the Union Pacific. Based on a map submitted by Silas Seymour, consulting engineer to the Union Pacific, the map shows five alternative routes with probable connections to existing railroads. Also shown are relief by hachures, county boundaries, drainage, vegetation, and roads. Nebraska was at this time a territory; it became the 37th state on March 1, 1867. Under the authorizing legislation, the railroad was not to have grades or curves exceeding the maximums on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first U.S. railroad to cross the Appalachians. This profile shows the careful attention paid by the engineers to the steepness of the grades on alternative routes considered for the line. The horizontal scale shown is one mile to one inch (1.61 kilometers to 2.54 centimeters), and the vertical scale is 60 feet to one inch (18.28 meters to 2.54 centimeters). The profile accompanied a topographic map showing five different routes between the Missouri River and the Platte Valley in Nebraska, which was part of a report submitted to Secretary of Interior James Harlan by Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Simpson of the Army Corps of Engineers." World Digital Library. Detailed map of Nebraska showing relief by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, and railroads.
6__ MAINE ITEMS Killed Under Train The crown sheet of engine 141 hauling a freight train northbound in charge of Conductor P N Clark Engineer L F Bishop blew out when within about five miles ofVanBuren at 10 oclock Monday evening Feb 25th slightly burning En gineer Bishop and Fireman J H Corey Brakeman Harry H Tidd who was rid ing in the engine jumped off into a snow bank rolled under the train and was kill ed His home was in Island Falls where his parents reside He was unmarried They Are After the Slackers The inspectors connected with the Au tomobile Registration Bureau depart ment of State are already rounding up numerous parties who have neglected doubtless on account of the deep snow and severe weatherto register their au tos for 1918 and are using their 1917 plates and numbers The bureau officials hope it will not be necessary but will take measures to induce all such offenders to step up and settle The government will have a job to do in Lubec as a result of the big ice embargo that existed there last week When the brokenup floes were passing out through the Narrows in the
"Sketch from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map. Extends from Richmond west to West Point. Also shows the course of the Pamunkey River. Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Mrs. Louisa Porter (Gilmer) Minis (i.e., Mrs. J. F. Minis), Savannah, Ga., in 1911. Manuscripts o.s.
NEWS OF THE WEEK Maim Mattkiis At a sheriffs sale last week at the granite works of the Maine iranite Co at Hewetts Island the property was disposed of Jo the fol lowing parties A C lay A Co a large hoisting engine Mathew Baird of New York a derrick w itli hoisting gear Hen i ry Sargent a derrick with hoisting gear and also several cars used to carry stone Jerry Harrington a steam hoisting en gine M A Johnson a steam hoisting engine Sherman A Hoverthe hoarding house The sale netted about 8000 William P Lennox aged To years one of the leading citizens of that section of the State died at his home in AAis casset May 2 For many years lie was president of the AViscasset Savings bank lie had held the office of county and town treasurer and was a promi nent merchant for yearsAVashbum Bros of Thomaston will huiklfor apt AVilliam 1 Lermond formerly in com mand uf the ship 1 l Thomas a four masted schooner with a carrying capac ity of 8000 tonsThe Androscoggin county Republican convention is called for June T An invitation has been ex tended Congressman Littlefield to ad