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Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country : describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors : a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country

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Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country : describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors : a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country

description

Summary

Shows cadastral and topographic data (land tracts with proprietors' names) in unurbanized areas.
Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings.
Also covers Hudson County (excluding Bayonne).
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Sheet quartered in order to fold.
LC copy imperfect: Darkened, brittle, missing small sections along edges/fold lines, stained so as to have white spots, rubber-stamped, annotated in blue crayon, adhesive label affixed, annotated in ink on cloth backing "VI No3".
Includes text, inset of "The town of Bergen as laid out by the Commissioners in 1764" [now part of Jersey City], and ill.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

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Date

01/01/1841
place

Location

bergen
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Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

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