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| Keywords: 1864 Mitchell Map of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland - Geographicus - VAWV-mitchell-1864.jpg A beautiful example of S A Mitchell Jr ™s 1864 map of Virginia West Virginia and Maryland This map was revised version of Mitchells 1860 map of the same region to accommodate for the separation of Virginia and West Virginia in 1862 Includes the full Chesapeake Bay from Cape Henry to the mouth of the Susquehanna River Curiously Harper ™s Ferry is mapped into Virginia rather than West Virginia Shortly after the end of the Civil War Harpers Ferry along with all of both Berkeley and Jefferson Counties was separated from Virginia and incorporated into West Virginia The inhabitants of the counties as well as the Virginia legislature protested and is this that protest we see reflected here in Mitchell ™s political map making In the end the cartography was not to have his way and Harper ™s Ferry was moved to West Virginia in subsequent maps thus creating the West Virginia panhandle One of the most attractive and interesting atlas maps of this region to appear in the mid 19th century Features the floral border typical of Mitchell maps from the 1860-65 period Prepared by W H Gamble for inclusion as plate 27 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell ™s New General Atlas Dated and copyrighted Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1863 by S Augustus Mitchell Jr in the Clerk ™s Office of the District Court of the U S for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1863 dated Size in 13 5 11 object history credit line accession number VAWV-mitchell-1864 <i>Mitchell's New General Atlas containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc Embraced in Fifty-three Quarto Maps forming a series of Eighty-Four Map and Plans together with Valuable Statistical Tables </i> 1864 Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of Virginia Old maps of West Virginia 1864 maps | ||||
