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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: A New Map

with its Canals, Roads & Distances fro
along the stage & steam boat route

Artist
Samuel Augustu
(1792–1868)
Alternative S. A
names S. A
Sr.
Description Am
cart
Date of 179
birth/death
Location of Bris
birth/death
Authority
control

Title A New Map of Nt

Canals, Roads &
place to place alo
steam boat route

Description English: A fine ex

Augustus Mitchel
map of North Car
shows cities, topo
features, railways
with color coding
level. In addition t
information this m
practical data for
traveler including
Dismal Swamp Ca
trade artery in the
of Distances, inse
New Berne and th
Region. Of partic
Mitchell’s focus o
Carolina gold reg
an inset in the low
Gold was first dis
Cabarrus County
1799 by twelve-y
Reed. Reed disco
seventeen-pound
setting of the nat
Rush. Additional g
soon discovered
Montgomery, Sta
Rowan and Union
Carolina Gold Rus
factor in the settl
population of the
North Carolina.
map is based on
Tanner though it
with new informa
Mitchell’s distinct
border and color
as plate no. 18 in
Mitchell’s New Un
Dated and copyri
according to Act
year 1850 by Tho
& Co. in the Clerk
District Court of t
of Pennsylvania.

Date 1850 (dated)

Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31

(38.1 cm)

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