Search for geospatial/GIS data

Find GIS data held at MIT and other institutions

Title: Post Route Map

Contributors:

Alternate titles

  • Post route map of the states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and parts of New York and Maine designed and constructed under the orders of Postmaster General Wm. Dennison and Second Ass't Postmaster Gen'l Geo. Wm. McLellan, by W. L. Nicholson topographer of P.O. Dept.

Dates

  • Issued: 1866
  • Coverage: 1866
  • Coverage: 1866 to 1866

Summary

1 map on 2 sheets : col., dissected ; 146 x 93 cm., folded to 20 x 13 cm.

Longitude east from Washington, D.C.; latitude north from the equator. Also gives time differential for longitudes.

Boundaries of states and some postal routes in color.

Backed on linen.

Includes a table of distances and a table of general statistics for 1860 and 1866.

Railroad routes shown.

Drawn by P. Goepel and engraved by D. McClelland.

"The service on this diagram brought up to date of Decr 29th 1866."

Official seal of Post Office Department on piece.

Subjects

  • Railway mail service New England Maps.
  • Postal service United States Maps.
  • Postal service New England Maps.
  • sprint-2021-05
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • 202212bbox
  • New England
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-72.5416,-69.795,45.289,41.1524)

Provider

University of Michigan

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • This map is in the public domain.

Citation

United States. Post Office Department http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013583 http://viaf.org/viaf/155868670. Post Route Map. Thematic maps. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-003279703/39015091910458

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • eng