Color print. Map portrays North Carolina and portions of the surrounding states of Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Counties are delineated and named. Cities and towns, roads, railroads, and rivers and other waterways are shown. Relief is shown by hachures. Vignettes of North Carolina and Virginia buildings and scenes appear around the border of the map, including the North Carolina State Capitol, Dorothea Dix Hospital, St. Mary's School, Salem Academy, the North Carolina Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Edgeworth Female Seminary in Greensboro, and Wesleyan Female College in Murfreesboro, N.C. Inset map titled"The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia 1594" notes significant places in early settlement of North Carolina and Virginia. Inset map
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