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Stock# 45235jc
Description
The First Map of West Virginia
Rare separately issue map of West Virginia, published in Charleston, West Virginia in 1864 by C.S. Ricahrdson & Son, Civil and Mining Engineers, Mineral Surveyors, &c. 36 Pine St. N.Y and Charleston West Va.
Rumsey notes:
The first separate map of West Virginia listed in Phillips. No other references found - precedes the two West Virginia oil maps listed in Streeter (3919, 3924) . . . . Virginia is shown as East Virginia. Shows Oil Works, Iron Mines, Coal Mines . . . . and most likely the first separately published map of this new state.
An exceptionally detailed map.
Richardson is known to have written a report on the Oil, Coal, Salt & Iron Lands for the Little Kanawha and Elk River Petroleum and Mining Company of West Virginia.
We can find little about Richardson.
The map is very rare. We note only the Rumsey example, with no other listings in OCLC.
Condition Description
A few minor spots and some very minor loss at the fold intersections.
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