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43478
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"Librarian Shelia Bumgarner fielded the call that led to the historic Harris Map's donation to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. John O'Connor, director of the library's Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room sent it off for restoration." Created in 1855 for use by city tax collector, Samuel A. Harris, the map is the oldest detailed map known for Charlotte. It was recently given to the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, one of the southeast's best local history collections.
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34885
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Author Michael Parker describes the first time her ever bought a map which eventually led to his collection of various maps. His most treasured map, however, is the Nature Lover’s Map of North Carolina, with hand-drawn natural depictions covering the entire North Carolina landscape.
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17015
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This article examines errors made in maps of the Carolinas as they concern Native Americans in the area.
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4.North Carolina's Birdseye Maps by Williams, Roberta North Carolina Geographer Vol. 16 Issue , 2008
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17005
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The 19th-century was a time of tremendous change in the United States, characterized by war, immigration, and industrial revolution. The majority of the American bird's eye maps captured the growth of the nation during this period.
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33467
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development are cooperating to produce inventory maps of the state’s coastal wetlands, and the cooperative agreement has been renewed. The maps will classify wetlands by an updated and expanded system which is applicable to all wetlands, not just those that provide habitat for waterfowl.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 241, Feb 1987,
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33350
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A new state geologic map has been published by the North Carolina Geological Survey. The first since 1958, the new map is more detailed, extensive, and useful in the field. This article discusses the field-discernible geology depicted on the map, and how it was developed over twenty-one months.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 234, Apr 1986,
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12860
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Sales promotion manager at Dillard's Paper Company as well as Christmas card maker and professional cartographer, Karl Smith has been making maps since the 1930s, the most famous of which is known as the North Carolina Historical Map.
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13072
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A revision of a 1795 map, this version depicts North Carolina in 1804, when the far western portion of the state was still firmly under control of the Cherokee Indian tribe.
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13080
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Showing a portion of a draft of a map of North Carolina from 1766, the image contained herein was additionally published in Sheer's, West India Pilot, 1771. Containing only a small portion of the state, the map shows the North Carolina and Virginia border in the northwestern part of the state.
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13107
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Showing a portion of a draft of a map of North Carolina from 1766, the image contained herein was additionally published in Sheer's, West India Pilot, 1771. Containing only a small portion of the state, the map shows the North Carolina and Virginia border in the upper northern and middle part of the state. This is the second publication in a series by The State. The first part of the map was printed in the March 1957 issue, on pages 24-25.
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13112
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Showing a portion of a draft of a map of North Carolina from 1766, the image contained herein was additionally published in Sheer's, West India Pilot, 1771. Containing only a small portion of the state, the map shows the North Carolina and Virginia border in the upper northeastern part of the state. This is the third publication in a series by The State. The first part of the map was printed in the March 1957 issue, on pages 24-25. The second part is in the April 1957 issue, on page 23.
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Showing a portion of a draft of a map of North Carolina from 1766, the image contained herein was additionally published in Sheer's, West India Pilot, 1771. Containing only a small portion of the state, the map shows the southeastern Outer banks from Cape Lookout to Cape Hatteras. This is the fourth publication in a series by The State. The first part of the map was printed in the March 1957 issue, on pages 24-25. The second part is in the April 1957 issue, on page 23. The third portion is in the second April 1957 issue, on page 19.
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13225
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This map contains three counties in Carolina -- Albemarle, Clarendon, and Craven; and what is now called the Cape Fear River. The Albemarle Sound is designated as a river and there are two inlets that are now non-existent.
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13059
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A section reprint of a previously published map. Section details the northern section of coastal North Carolina, with emphasis on Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound.
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13061
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Another section of Mouzon's map joins up to the west of the previously printed map. The map was drawn up for use by the British Military but was used on by both sides of the Revolution. It designates landholdings, inns, ferries, bridges, and other prominent features.
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