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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."
Map of Rensselaer County, New York, United States in 1829, by David H. Burr. David Burr (1803–1875) was an American cartographer, surveyor and topographer.He served in several positions for the United States government, as the official topographer for the United States Post Office Department from 1832 until 1838, and as a draftsman for the United States House of Representatives from 1838 ...
David Rumsey at the 2005 Where 2.0 Conference. David Rumsey (born 1944) [1] is an American map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates. In 2023, he starred in the documentary A Stranger Quest by the Italian director Andrea Gatopoulos, presented at Torino Film Festival. [2]
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
Albany Post Road, in use by 1642, from Bowling Green (New York City) to Albany, called "Broadway" for long stretches Bozeman Trail from Virginia City, Montana , to central Wyoming California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas , to California
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The King's Highway was a roughly 1,300-mile (2,100 km) road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies. It was built on the order of Charles II of England, who directed his colonial governors to link Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway , maintained by the Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were the work of fly-by-night promoters, to the point that anyone with enough paint and the will to do so could set ...