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Creation Date
1968
Description
Indicates state lines, county lines, and county seats. Eight original shires, established 1634, tinted yellow. Independent cities (not administered by a county government), with dates of incorporation as cities, tinted blue, with the exception of Hampton and Newport News which cover areas of Original Shires, Warwich (River) and Elizabeth City couties, now extinct. County origins taken from charts and county abstracts in first edition of "A Hornbook of Virginia History" (1949, Division of History of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, Richmond); the recent consolidation of areas to form new cities taken from 1965 edition of the Hornbook (publ. by the State Library, Richmond, under direction of Randolph W. Church, Virginia State Librarian). Drawn May 1968 by Katherine W. Ewing, Nashville, Tennessee. No scale provided.
Dimensions
90 x 59 cm
Rights
The Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University provides access to these materials for the purposes of research and education and is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection or any other restrictions for this item. Any commercial uses of the materials or any uses that exceed the limits of fair use and other relevant statutory exceptions may require the permission of any copyright holder(s). It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials. Preferred citation: [identification of item], Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University.
Keywords
Archives of Appalachia, rare map, Virginia