What’s with all these PDF posts?
What happened to the original North Carolina Map Blog? Why a new one?
Carey Pocket Atlas Maps of North Carolina
The Pocket Atlas Maps of North Carolina published by Mathew Carey, 1796-1820. Mathew Carey published his first “Carey’s American Pocket Atlas” in 1796. The engraved plate for this map of North Carolina was used in later issues of Carey’s pocket… Read moreCarey Pocket Atlas Maps of North Carolina
Margaret Pritchard: “More than meets the eye…”
Greetings from the William P. Cumming Map Society, Mark your calendar for an event sponsored and hosted by the William P. Cumming Map Society and the North Carolina Collection Gallery at UNC-Chapel Hill. The event includes a presentation by one… Read moreMargaret Pritchard: “More than meets the eye…”
Variants and States of Price-Strother map of North Carolina
To David Stone and Peter Brown, Esqrs. : this first actual survey of the state of North Carolina taken by the subscribers is respectfully dedicated Some years back, the author published a history of the 1807/1808 map of North Carolina… Read moreVariants and States of Price-Strother map of North Carolina
Geneva edition of Purcell’s map of SE USA.
Joseph Purcell’s “A Map of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia…” was first engraved and printed in 1788, and published in the August 1788 issue of American Magazine, and the 1789 edition of Jedidiah Morse’s American… Read moreGeneva edition of Purcell’s map of SE USA.
Freydeck – What’s in a name?
Freydeck suddenly appeared west of the Blue Ridge (in current day Ashe County) on several English and French maps of North America published in 1755. By the end of the 18th Century, Freydeck was gone. What is the origin of this extinct North Carolina place name?
Outline Map of North Carolina
William D. Cooke published an outline map of North Carolina, primarily for legislators, in 1852 and another in 1872. No surviving copies of the 1852 map, or the final version of the 1872 map are currently known. Has anyone seen one of these maps?
Pearce’s MacRae-Brazier map
Samuel Pearce published a huge map of North Carolina in 1859, embellished with decorative elements at the top and bottom. It represents the final map printed from the copper plates first used to print the 1833 MacRae-Brazier map.
MacRae-Brazier Map – Chapter 3
A most peculiar wall map of North Carolina was printed in about 1858. Decorative elements were borrowed from a number of NY county maps.
MacRae-Brazier map Chapter 2
The 1833 MacRae-Brazier map of North Carolina, after lying dormant for two decades, made multiple reappearances in the 1850s. In Chapter 2, we’ll discuss the second state of the map, published by Wellington Williams in 1854.
1857 Cooke map of North Carolina
The 1857 wall map of North Carolina, published by William D. Cooke, is one of the rarest 19th Century maps of the state. Learn more about its publication history and the various states of the map.