Colton's New Railroad & County Map of the United States, the Canadas &c 1862

Old map of United States.

Created by J. H. (Joseph Hutchins) Colton in 1862.

• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.H. Colton."
• "Explanations" (i.e., legend) is pasted over the bottom margin. Map is colored to show "free, or non-slaveholding states" (pink), "border slave states" (yellow), and "seceded or confederate states" (green).
• Description derived from published bibliography.
• Insets: Colton's map of the United States showing the proposed railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean -- Southern part of Florida.
• This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.
• Civil War Map
• March 1962, C.R. Sanders, df; Oct. 2003, Map Cataloging Team.
• Civil War project no.: lva00162.
• Conservation: restored May 1965; Etherington Conservation Center, Oct. 2003.
• Digital image available: 40 x 30 in.
• Map accession no. 1983 (1964).
• Previously filed as: 730 .R15 1862.

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