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Detailed maps of Charleston & Savannah, two of the major cities in the Southeast prior to the Civil War.
The Savannah map shows streets, roads, buildings, stations, rail depots, etc. It includes a note concerning its founding in 1776 and 18th Century history, along with a Reference key naming 24 places of interest.
The map of Charleston shows streets, roads, buildings, the Washington Race Course, ponds, a military Arsenal and a host of other details. These are two of the earliest town plans of southern cities to appear in a commercial atlas. Decorative border.
A terrific map, from JH Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the mid-19th Century.
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
![(Southeast United States) Carte de la partie sud, des Etats Unis de L' amerique septentrionale [Map of the southern part of the United States of North America]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/98738.jpg)