Color print, mounted on linen in four sheets. The map portrays North and South Carolina and parts of the adjoining states of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West 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. North Carolina railways named include Albemarle & Raleigh Rail Road; Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Rail Road; Carolina Central Rail Road; Cherry & Salisbury Rail Road; Chester & Lenoir Rail Road; Columbia & Augusta Rail Road; Midland North Carolina Rail Road (Atlantic and North Carolina Rail Road); Norfolk & Western Rail Road; Oxford & Henderson Rail Road; Raleigh & August Air Line Rail Road; Raleigh & Gaston Rail Road; Richmond & Danville Rail Road; Western North Carolina; and Wilmington & Weldon Rail Road. 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 of the map; and a chart entitled Explanation of Mail Service appears in the lower right corner beneath the title. Longitude is measured from the Capitol in Washington.
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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