Map of New Castle County, Delaware : from Original Surveys 1849

Old map of Delaware, New Castle County, United States, Wilmington.

Created by Jacob Price, Rea & Price, Samuel M. Rea, George Read Riddle, Smith & Wistar, Robert Pearsall Smith in 1849.

• General-content county map showing hundreds (townships), school districts, rural buildings, and householders' names; Wilmington inset shows built-up areas.
• Hand col. to emphasize city/hundred boundaries.
• Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
• "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by Robert P. Smith in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
• Originally printed on 4 sheets (later conjoined on cloth backing).
• Includes note, statistical table, and ill.
• Inset: Plan of the city of Wilmington / compiled from surveys by G.R. Riddle C.E. 1847, reduction by Rea and Price.
• Land Ownership Map
• 2 copies

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