Topographical map of Wisconsin Territory / compiled from the Public Surveys on file in the Surveyor General's office ... by Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle [and] Joshua Hathaway ; engraved by Doolittle & Munson.
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- Created Date
- 1837
- Description
Shows Wisconsin south of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers and east of Green Bay. Relief shown by hachures. Written in ink: "From the collection of Eugene Field, presented to John Suetterle Taylor, June 1925."
This is the first large-scale map of the Wisconsin Territory based on actual surveys. The map was compiled and published by the surveyors Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle, and Joshua Hathaway and engraved on three copperplates. In 1785, the United States Congress passed the Land Survey Ordinance, which provided for a system of square townships six miles on a side, divided into 36 one-square-mile sections. The map shows townships in the Wisconsin Territory surveyed by 1837. Also depicted are roads, trails, natural land forms, vegetation, mill sites, and the lead and copper deposits known at the time. The long lots in Green Bay and Prairie du Chien reflect the French system of land holdings along riverfronts. Maps such as these helped immigrants and settlers understand the survey system and locate the land they bought. A prospective buyer could go to any U.S. Government Land Office and look in tract books that contained detailed descriptions of the land. As the inscription states, the map
Color
1:200,000
- Creator
Doolittle & Munson
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Wisconsin. Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
- Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Doolittle & Munson. Topographical map of Wisconsin Territory / compiled from the Public Surveys on file in the Surveyor General's office ... by Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle [and] Joshua Hathaway ; engraved by Doolittle & Munson.. 1837. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1089. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Doolittle & Munson, (1837) Topographical map of Wisconsin Territory / compiled from the Public Surveys on file in the Surveyor General's office ... by Samuel Morrison, Elisha Dwelle [and] Joshua Hathaway ; engraved by Doolittle & Munson.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1089
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- Doolittle & Munson. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/1089>.