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Map of Wiskonsan
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This manuscript map from 1844 attempts to show the state just a dozen years after Native Americans had ceded it to the U.S. It includes many local or Indian names for lakes and waterways, as well as naming early communities of white settlers. One of its creators, 20-year-old Charles Doty (1824-1919), was secretary to his father, Territorial Governor James Duane Doty, at the time it was drawn, and it may have been used in the territorial capitol. It came to the Society in the papers of cartographer and scientist Increase Lapham, following his death in 1875. The map shows counties, the township survey grid, roads, rivers, lakes, Menominee boundaries, Carver's claim, boundary established by the Ordinance of 1787, trading posts, and cities and settlements. It includes an inset map of "N.W. Part of Wiskonsan."
1844
Doty, Charles, 1824-1918 (cartographer)
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