Browse Items (21 total)
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Course of the River Mississippi, 1775
Course of the River Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres. -
Plan of Lystra in Nelson County, Kentucky, 1795
Plan proposal of the town Lystra in Nelson County, Kentucky. The town was never built. Printed in "Winterbotham's Historical Views of the U.S.A." -
Trace of George Roger Clark's map of the Plan of the town of Louisville, 20 April 1779
This original plan of the city of Louisville was found in George Rogers Clark's surveyors book in 1881 and traced by R.C. Ballard Thruston in 1910. -
Historical map of the Old Northwest Territory
Map of the Old Northwest territory. Reverse side has the Ordinance of 1787. Includes text on "How the United States came into possession of Northwest Territory," "Thomas Jeffferson's conception," and "How the Northwest Territory became states." -
Louisiana by de Rivier Mississippi
Shows rivers, lakes, and forts. -
Map of the Falls of the Ohio
Map of the Falls of the Ohio, from actual survey, adapted to the low water of 1819. Shows both Baker's route for a canal on the Kentucky side of the river and Flint's route for a canal on the Indiana side. -
Kentucky map, 1805
Map of Kentucky in 1805 showing towns, counties, rivers, creeks, and American Indian boundary lines. Taken from Aaron Arrowsmith's "A New and Elegant General Atlas." -
Map of the State of Kentucky, from actual survey, facsimilie.
Shows cities, towns, forts and stations, rivers, roads, etc. Includes notations on the fertility of the land and the quality of the salt licks.
The Filson has another original of this map which was removed from the 3rd London edition of Imlay's Topographical description of the western territory of North America, 1797. -
Map of the United States in North America with the British, French, and Spanish dominions adjoining, according to the Treaty of 1783
From New South Wales and St. James Bay in the North to the Carolinas and northern Florida in the South and west to the Mississippi River.
Map shows towns, rivers, creeks, and frontier forts. -
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State of Kentucky: Richard Henderson & Co., land grant
Land-grant survey which was made at the request of Robert Burton, Esq., agent for Richard Henderson & Co., on 20 April 1796, after a grant of 200,000 acres was made to the company by the Virginia Assembly. -
A map of the State of Kentucky and the Tennessee Government
From Jedidiah Morse's American universal geography. Shows rivers, creeks, towns, forts, Indian boundaries, and the southern boundary of a military reservation in Tennessee. -
The State of Kentucky with the adjoining territories from the best authorities, 1800
Shows Kentucky and surrounding territories. Engraved for Payne's Geography, published by I. Low New York.Tags map -
A map of the United States of America: with part of the adjoining provinces from the greatest authorities
Shows the thirteen colonies and as far west as the Mississippi River, including the western territory, Kentucky, and Tennessee, the northern tip of Lake Superior including parts of Canada and New Brunswick. -
Carte géographique, statistique et historique du Kentucky.
Includes text on the climate, geography, economy, education, religion, government, etc. of Kentucky in 1825. -
A map of the British American plantations…
A map of the British American plantations, extending from Boston in New England to Georgia, including all the back settlements in the respective provinces, as far as the Mississippi. From "Gentleman's Magazine" 4 July 1754. Shows rivers, mountains, creeks, Indian villages, French and English forts, and "Walkers settlement 1750" on the Cumberland River. -
Les États-Unis De L'Amérique Septentrionale : Partie Orientale.
Shows rivers, lakes, forts, and Indian tribes. Covers part of the great lakes and some of the territory of the old Northwest. Relief shown pictorially. -
Il paese de' Cherachesi, con la parte occidentale, della Carolina Settentrionle, e della Virginia
Map showing the trans-Appalachian region in Kentucky and Tennessee west to the Mississippi and includes rivers, mountains, forts, Indian tribes and English settlements. -
Map of the state of Kentucky: with the adjoining territories, 1795
Map showing the Old Northwest and Southwest territories along with their rivers, towns, creeks, mills, courthouses, traces, forts, and salt licks. Includes tracts held by the Ohio, New Jersey, and Wabash Companies, the Virginia donation lands and land set aside in Tennessee for the "North Carolina troops." -
Cours du Mississipi: comprenant la Louisiane, les 2 Florides, une partie des Etats-Unis, et pays adjacents.
Course of the Mississippi: including Louisiana, the 2 Floridas, part of the United States, and adjacent countries. From P. Etienne Herbin de Halle's Statistique générale et particulière de la France et de ses colonies.