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Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin
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This brightly-colored map shows townships, county towns, and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, rapids, canals, railroads, and plank roads. Statistics of each county's 1840 and 1850 population, farms, and productive establishments are listed in the top left corner of the map, along with a chart showing the state's white, free Black, slave, and total population in the two respective years.
1854
Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901 (cartographer)
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Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin : compiled from the United States surveys, & other authentic sources
1851
This map exhaustively marks the townships, counties, and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, canals, railroads, plank roads, and post roads. Each county's population in 1840 and 1850 is li...
Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin
1855
Drawn in 1855, seven years after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties, cities, towns, rivers and lakes in the entire state. It also covers part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Th...
Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin : Showing the Milwaukee Watertown & Madison R.R. and Its Connections
1857
This map depicts the township survey grid in Wisconsin and northern Michigan and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, post roads and post of...
G. Woolworth Colton's County and Township Rail Road Map of Wisconsin Illinois Missouri & Iowa
1866
This map shows the railroads both completed and under construction in southern Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Railroad terminals, junctions, and stations are identified, as are counties, ...
Map of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Rail Road
1853
This map of southern Wisconsin highlights the La Crosse & Milwaukee Rail Road. It also shows other railroads, canals, plank and post roads, towns and the township grid, rivers, lakes, villages and ...
Wisconsin
1854
This map of the whole state of Wisconsin shows railroads, common roads, canals, the state capital, county towns, townships, villages and post offices. It also covers part of Michigan's Upper Penin...
