Battery no. 8 (on Mitchell tract road).
Gives measurements and latitude and longitude of perimeters. Map annoted with name of land owner: Col. Graham, U.S.A. One of a series of ten maps showing the plats of land appropriated for Batteries 1-10 around Richmond. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 26971, B.M. Jones Papers. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. c. 1, March 2003, source unknown; c. 2, March 2003, color ink jet print, LVA, Map Cataloging Team. Civil War Map Proj. no.: lva00116. Copy 1 map accession no. 26791(1968); Copy 2, map accession no. 5208h (on sheet approx. 34 x 42 cm.) Digital image available: 15.75 x 12.25 in. Original plats are restricted. Please use copies available in the Map Room (755.43 S8 1861).
- Date
- 1861
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Jones, M
- Place
- Virginia
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 4,913 × 3,870 pixels
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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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