Colored print, mounted. The map shows the location of coal deposits in the vicinity of the Deep River in southern Chatham and northern Moore counties. A legend in the upper left explains the colors used to indicate the deposits of coal as well as upper sandstone, lower sandstone, salines, taconic slate, and granite. Roads, houses, mills, rivers and creeks, bridges, and principal residents in the area are also noted.
Published in and extracted from: Emmons, Ebenezer. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina. New York and Raleigh: G. P. Putnam and Co., 1856.
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