Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania /
Summary
General-content county map showing schools, meetinghouses, smithies, inns, post-offices, etc.; does not show landowners'/householders' names.
Hand col. to emphasize township/borough boundaries and territories.
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridian: Washington D.C.
Former wall map sectioned to 4 quarters.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen in the ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Copyright transferred to T.J. Kennedy in the year 1856."
LC copy imperfect: Shellacked, use-worn, missing small internal sections along cut-lines, annotated in blue/lead pencils on cloth backing, foxed on cloth backing.
LC Land ownership maps, 724
Includes statistical table, key to abbreviations, col. ill., and embellished map border. Also includes inset of "Borough of West Chester" showing real-property tracts with owners' names in the outer parts of the borough.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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