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Map of Neenah or Fox River

Date: 1839
Description: Map of a canal route to avoid the principal rapids of the Neenah or Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay.
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

Date: 1837
Description: Map of the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Neenah or Fox River and of the Proposed Canals From Fond du Lac to Rock River and the Wiskonsin.

Date: 1839
Description: This map shows the township and section grid, lakes, rivers, swamps, prairies, roads, and proposed canals in the area of Wisconsin south of Lake Winnebago ...
Map or Atlas

New and Authentic Map of the State of Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin

Date: 1839
Description: Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn in 1839, this map shows the state of Michig...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

Date: 1837
Description: A pen and ink on tracing paper, hand-drawn and colored map the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, ranging from the Rock River in the wes...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Canal Termination on Portsmouth Point

Date: 1833
Description: Increase Lapham's plan for the canal terminus on Portsmouth Point at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers.
Map or Atlas

Plan of the City of Louisville and its Environs in 1831

Date: 1831
Description: Map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River showing streets and numbered lots. The Ohio River, Corn Island, and the Louisville and Portland C...
Manuscript

Lapham Index Page, Canals of Ohio

Date: 1832
Description: Page from the handwritten index to Lapham's Notes and accounts of canals, particularly the Ohio Canal near Portsmouth, 1830-1832.
Map or Atlas

Map of Winnebago Portage, Situated on the Portage Canal Between the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers : Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no...
Map or Atlas

Map Exhibiting Routes by Which the Navigation of the Mississippi River May be Connected with the Navigation of the Lakes

Date: 1839
Description: This map, one of a series made by Thomas Jefferson Cram of the U.S. Topographical Engineers from personal surveys, covers the area from Green Bay to the ju...

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