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The Sauthier Maps and the Formal Gardens at Tryon Palace: Myth or Reality?
Record #:
21655
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Abstract:
Colonial mapmaker Claude Sauthier made two maps of Tryon Palace for the British crown in 1769. These maps have been used to accurately locate missing features prior, but there are questions with regards to the formal gardens. The maps were made more than a year before Tryon Palace's completion in 1770 and shows plans for the gardens moved during construction.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 79 Issue 3, July 2002,
p327-346 , il, map, f
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