1849 Map

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I took photo’s of an 1849 replica map that you may find interesting. This portion of the map shows Atsion at the very bottom. The school is shown and the Richard's residence is shown. Also, at Quaker Bridge there are three dwellings shown on the east side of the bridge. The hotel and another Richard's residence is shown. Or it could just be mentioning Richard's Hotel.

And what I find most interesting is further up the Batsto River at Hampton Furnace you can see the mill ponds for Hampton Furnace and maybe the forge. The left pond is from the furnace that was located next to where the cranberry packing house is presently located, and the other pond possibly is the forge pond that would have been on the river east of the cranberry packing house at this location. Basically at the two bridges at Hampton Furnace. This was before the cranberry companies came to town :)

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I also have McCartyville (that’s how it is spelled), Mount, Apple Pie Hill, Eagle, and Washington but they are somewhat blurry.

Guy
 
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woodjin said:
Very cool map. a real work of art. I don't recall seeing pine trees scattered about like that on a map before.

Jeff
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Woodjin:

Cartographers have used a variety of symbols on their maps throughout the centuries. The pine tree motif became popular among mapmakers during the mid-nineteenth century and you will also find it present on Jesse Lightfoot's 1851 map of Monmouth County. The map that TeeGate photographed is the Otley and Whiteford 1849 map of Burlington County. Typical of the sheet maps (also called "wall maps") from that period, the map features a fancy border and specific cartographic symbols. Cadastral (which means the map depicts landowner's names) in nature, the Otley and Whiteford 1849 map is among the earliest commercially produced county maps for New Jersey. The only one that predates it is John Clement's 1846 map of Camden County, which is much smaller and not cadastral. While lithography arrived on the shores of America in the early part of the nineteenth century, it took the invention of the steam lithographic printing press to make large map production possible. Prior to the discovery of lithography in Germany during the eighteenth century, map production required either the mirror-image engraving of copper printing plates or the creation of wood printing blocks for less detailed maps. Copper plate printing remains the most accurate way of printing maps and the United States Geological Survey continued this time-honored traditional craft in producing its topographical quadrangle maps into the 1930s. Today, the USGS uses lithography like most other map printers.

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Jerseyman
 
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ecampbell said:
Guy, can you post the portion of the map at Hampton Furnace?

Ed
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That is Hampton Furnace on this map. The two ponds are the ones you no longer can see well from both bridges at Hampton. Just 30 years ago they were wide open for viewing.

Guy
 
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