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Keywords: 1850 Mitchell Map of North Carolina showing Gold Regions - Geographicus - NorthCarolina-mitchell-1850.jpg A fine example of Samuel Augustus Mitchell ™s important 1850 map of North Carolina This map shows cities topographical features railways ferries and roads with color coding at the county level In addition to cartographic information this map is full of practical data for the armchair traveler including a profile of the Dismal Swamp Canal an important trade artery in the region a Table of Distances insets of the vicinity of New Berne and the Carolina Gold Region Of particular interest is Mitchell ™s focus on the North Carolina gold region highlighted by an inset in the lower left quadrant Gold was first discovered in Cabarrus County North Carolina in 1799 by twelve-year-old Conrad Reed Reed discovered a seventeen-pound gold nugget setting of the nation ™s first Gold Rush Additional gold deposits were soon discovered in neighboring Montgomery Stanly Mecklenburg Rowan and Union counties The Carolina Gold Rush was a major factor in the settlement and population of the western parts of North Carolina Cartographically this map is based on the earlier work of Tanner though it has been updated with new information as well as Mitchell ™s distinctive decorative border and color scheme Published as plate no 18 in the 1850 edition of Mitchell ™s New Universal Atlas Dated and copyrighted Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait Co in the Clerk ™s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1850 dated Size in 15 12 5 object history credit line accession number NorthCarolina-mitchell-1850 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of North Carolina 1850 maps Distance tables Dismal Swamp Canal New Bern North Carolina Maps of Craven County North Carolina Maps of Mecklenburg County North Carolina Maps of Stanly County North Carolina Maps of Cabarrus County North Carolina Gold rushes Maps in English
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