''Alabama'' c 1827 - Finley

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''ALABAMA'' Philadelphia:  Anthony Finley, c. 1827, from The New General Atlas.  Very fine engraved map with full original hand-coloring.(Image: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2'')

This handsome historical map depicts Alabama with counties named & in contrasting colors. Topographical features are depicted with major cities, towns, and waterways identified. Numerous Indian villages and missionary stations and major wagon roads are also shown. New Creek Line and New Cherokee Line are shown on the right.

This map is particularly important due to the rapidly changing American Indian situation in the eastern portion of the state.  When this map was published in 1827, the northeastern portion was a confined territory assigned to the Upper Creek and Cherokee who would soon be forcibly relocated westward in the infamous Trail of Tears

This map is also of interest as it details a territorial dispute between Alabama and Georgia (Line Claimed by Alabama - Line Claimed by Georgia). Early surveying errors attributed the same territory to both states.  In 1826, a joint Alabama-Georgia boundary commission moved the south end of the "Nickajack line" about 40 miles north, from the mouth of Uchee Creek to its current location at Lanett in present-day Chambers County on the Chattahoochee River.

Shipped in archival 20x16'' mat

  • Inventory# M-12712
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