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| Keywords: 1827 Finley Map of Eastern Pennsylvania - Geographicus - Pennsylvania-finley-1827.jpg Central Pennsylvania to Eastern Pennsylvania This version is produced as a blank 1827 Commons - File 1827 Finley Map of Pennsylvania - Geographicus - Pennsylvania-finley-1827 jpg Anthony Finley edited by User Fabartus PD-1923 other versions Marked up with terminuses of the Lehigh Canal and Delaware Canals and the Lehigh-Susquehanna Turnpike Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike Susquehanna-Tioga Turnpike connecting Philadelphia to Lake Erie File 1827 Finley Map of Eastern Pennsylvania en-antd Lehigh-Susquehanna Susquehanna-Tioga Turnpike jpg Image appears below Marked up with emphasis added for Wagon Roads in this map series File 1827 Finley Map of Eastern Pennsylvania - Wagon Roads and Turnpikes png ---- A beautiful example of Finley's important 1827 map of Pennsylvania Depicts the state with moderate detail in Finley's classic minimalist style Shows river ways roads canals and some topographical features Offers color coding at the county level Title at top center Scale at bottom center Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas <br /> The w Allegheny Plateau the Eastern drainage divide and the emphasis the cartographer placed on the Allegheny Front barrier range is obvious in this minimalist styled 19th century map <br />So lightly settled were the lands the cartographer has traced known <u>trails</u> likely proven wagon tracks primitive dirt roads throughout; with the exposed and unsettled lands the work clearly shows their convergence through the few climbable 'gaps in the Allegheny ' Front <br />Note this map is three years after the legislation authorizing the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Main Line of Public Works and Pennyslvania Canal System that would connect Philadelphia to the Ohio River The portage railroad ascends one water gap due east of the mining town of Ebensburg PA which is ALONG the eastern side of Western Pennsylvania Ebensburg is a few miles west of the Kittanning Path Kittanning Gorge and the future site of Altoona PA 'Gaps in the Allegheny' term used in A History of Pennsylvania dated ca 1893 1827 undated Eastern Pennsylvania counties detail object history credit line accession number Finley Anthony <i>A New General Altas Comprising a Complete Set of Maps representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe Together with the several Empires Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries</i> Philadelphia 1827 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 thumb left File 1827 Finley Map of Eastern Pennsylvania - Wagon Roads and Turnpikes png--marked up to show road network in late 1820s thumb File 1827 Finley Map of Eastern Pennsylvania en-antd Lehigh-Susquehanna Susquehanna-Tioga Turnpike jpg - with annotations of Lehigh Canal Delaware Canal and the Lehigh Delaware Valley to Lake Erie turnpikes in Pennsylvania Anthony Finley Maps by Anthony Finley 1827 maps Old maps of Pennsylvania User Fabartus/FABImage 1 | ||||
