Map of Wiskonsan, 1844
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- Created Date
- 1844
- Description
This manuscript map from 1844 attempts to show the state just a dozen years after Native Americans had ceded it to the U.S. It includes many local or Indian names for lakes and waterways, as well as naming early communities of white settlers. One of its creators, 20-year-old Charles Doty (1824-1919), was secretary to his father, Territorial Governor James Duane Doty, at the time it was drawn, and it may have been used in the territorial capitol. It came to the Society in the papers of cartographer and scientist Increase Lapham, following his death in 1875.
- Creator
Doty, Charles, 1824-1918
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Maps
- Location
- United States
WI - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
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- Chicago citation style
- Doty, Charles, 1824-1918. Map of Wiskonsan, 1844. 1844. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/602. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Doty, Charles, 1824-1918, (1844) Map of Wiskonsan, 1844. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/602
- MLA citation style
- Doty, Charles, 1824-1918. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/602>.