Preliminary Post Route Map of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina with adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia
Color print, mounted on linen in four sections. This map was prepared by Walter Lamb Nicholson (died 1895), the first topographer of the United States Post Office Department, by order of Postmaster General David M. Key. This edition was published in 1879 with corrections to February 1, 1883. The map portrays North Carolina and South Carolina and parts of the adjoining states of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. The frequency and types of mail service, mileage between post offices, and discontinued post offices are noted. Counties are delineated and named, and towns, railroads, rivers and streams, and other physical features are depicted and identified. A map of the western portion of North Carolina showing the counties of Cherokee, Graham, and Clay appears as an inset in the lower left corner of the map, and a chart entitled Explanations of Mail Services appears in the lower right corner below the title. Longitude is measured from the Capitol in Washington. North Carolina railroads shown include the Carolina Central; Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio; Western North Carolina; Richmond & Danville; Raleigh & Augusta Air Line; Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley; Alma & Little Rock; Columbia and Augusta; Piedmont Air Line; Raleigh & Gaston; Oxford & Henderson; Scotland Neck Rail Road; Seaboard & Roanoke; Jamesville and Washington; Elizabeth City & Norfolk; and Midland North Carolina.
North Carolina Maps is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.
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