1859 Parry Sikes and Earl map of Burlington County

[relayer]

Well, Ijust put up a copy of the 1859 Parry Sikes and Earl Map of Burlington County. It is an obscenely huge file (about 50 meg) but loads fine, albeit with a bit of a wait on both my 10 year old iLamp and its new cousin. I'm not entirely pleased with my handiwork so it may change slightly. But anyway, it's out and somebody might find it interesting. Enjoy or something
http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/maps/countymaps/BurlingtconCounty-1859.shtml

 

[MarkBNJ]

That is a sweet map. Thanks for posting it. I couldn't get it to display in Chrome. Eventually the browser stopped trying and just displayed a white background. I was able to right click the background and "Save Image."

 

[relayer]

Sorry - I forgot to issue my standard warning about what browsers will and won't display enormous online images. IE, Firefox and other Mizilla based browsers seem to have real problems with big images. I thought that Chrome handled such things wbut was apparently wrong. Safari and Opera handle large images and allow the user to
"fly" over them. Glad you were able to do the download. BTW - You're welcome. It was my pleasure.

 

[relayer]

Oh! I forgot to credit Spung-man with letting the first to remind me about this. We were actually on the phone ...

 

[Spung-Man]

Yeah, it wasn't so easy either. Why the soil's so poor here I had to fertilize the telephone pole before I could hear relayer talking long distance...

 

[Teegate]

Al,

Look this over.

Guy

 

[turtle]

I can't open relayer's map.....

Benjamin White it is. Help!

Thanks....

 

[relayer]

The most common reason folks can't read/see one of these big maps is that the browser they are using is unwilling or unable to handle it. The usual suspects are mozilla based browsers like IE or Firefox. Apprantly Chrome is afflicted with this limitation as well. So their are two alternatives. One is to download Opera or Safari, which can handle the big images, or, to wait till the browser fails and see if you can download the linked file off whatever icon the browser eventually puts up. One of those courses of action should do the trick.

 

[Teegate]

Turtle,

If nobody has fixed that for you by tonight I will alter it so you can view it.

Guy

 

[Teegate]

Turtle,

Try this. I cut the size back somewhat. It is harder to read but still readable. Once it loads you may need to click on the photo to make it larger. If there is any area you want to see more clearly, I can get that to you.

http://home.comcast.net/~teegate1/BurlCounty_1859_Parry_Sikes_and_Earl.jpg

Guy

 

[Teegate]

There is a J. Black's Tract near New Lisbon. I wonder if it is the same J. Black?

See attached.

 

[oji]

There was a John Black involved in the New Lisbon Methodist Church along with Eayre Oliphant around 1874. Also Scotts 1876 atlas shows an A.L. Blacks cranberries in the New Lisbon area(probably the Mr. Black that dug Beck's canals mentioned in Bob Reeves book).

 

[turtle]

Turtle,

Try this. I cut the size back somewhat. It is harder to read but still readable. Once it loads you may need to click on the photo to make it larger. If there is any area you want to see more clearly, I can get that to you.

Guy

Thank you!

 

[Pan]

Wow, that's a beautiful map! I need to study it to see what I can relate to and try to find some familiar landmarks.

I opened it OK with Firefox. I generally use FF or Opera.

 

[ecampbell]

That is a teriffic map. Some of my family immigrated to Frankford in the 1800's. Frankford was the center of the textile industry in Philadelphia. They came from Manchester England and Munich Bavaria which were also textile centers. It's great to see the mills locations and where my familys homes were or would be. I spent allot of time there. It puts a different perspective on the city.
I also lived in Cherry Hill for awhile. I found Cherry Hill at about the location of the mall. I always thought the name was made up.
As you can tell. I'm having lots of fun with the map.
Thanks,
Ed