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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | This pen and ink map sketches the route taken by General Sherman's troops from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia. Railroads, rivers, and towns are lab... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This pen and ink tracing illustrates the route traveled by Sherman's troops through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina in the winter and spring of... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | This 1898 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Register of the Deed Office filed by the land surveyor and lawyer Alfred Topliff. The document includes detailed listings of city blocks. In the right hand... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, state and county lands, churches, schools, cemeteries, roads, and railroads. There is an inse... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Map created between 1871 and 1880. Shows townships, post offices, a possible railroad to Penoka Iron Range, and the North Wisconsin Railroad. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The township of Primrose, which is a detail from the plat map of Dane County. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The township of Montrose, which is a detail from a Dane County plat map. |
| Date: | 01 01 1856 |
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| Description: | This map is mounted on cloth and shows lots, as well as location of the public square and college. Streets are labeled as is the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | This map shows a cross-section of southern Wisconsin, with the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad line running from Milwaukee to the Mississippi River near... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows the locations of ancient works in the state of Wisconsin. Lake Superior and Michigan are labeled. Counties, towns, and rivers are also label... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Map of a cross-section of southern Wisconsin, highlighting the La Crosse Milwaukee Rail Road. Shows canals, railroads, plank and post roads, and township g... |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | This map shows waterways, trails, settlements, Indian villages, and boundaries. The map includes text in the lower left with excerpts from Indian land trea... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map shows the railroad routes and connection of the Mineral Point Railroad. Lake Michigan is on the far right, while Lake Superior is at the top of th... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map shows the railroad routes that lead to Milwaukee. Included are portions of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Lake Michigan is on the right, while Lake... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows the railroad routes of the Milwaukee & Horicon Railroad, common roads, counties, canals, townships, cities, county towns, villages, post off... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows county boundaries, larger cities, lakes, rivers, and the railroad network. The main line is in red, and the Milwaukee and Chicago Railroad i... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows drainage, state boundaries, county boundaries, rivers, lakes, township lines, cities, and towns. The Milwaukee & Horicon Road road is indica... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | This map shows railroad and other transportation routes in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, portions of Iowa, Minnesota, and ... |
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