Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania
General-content county map showing schools, meetinghouses, smithies, inns, post-offices, etc.; does not show landowners'/householders' names. Hand col. to emphasize township/borough boundaries and territories. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington D.C. Former wall map sectioned to 4 quarters. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen in the. Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Copyright transferred to T.J. Kennedy in the year 1856." ill., and embellished map border. Also includes inset of "Borough of West Chester" showing real-property tracts with owners' names in the outer parts of the borough.
- Date
- 1856
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Kennedy, T. J.; Painter, Samuel Marshall; Bowen, John S.; Barnes, Rufus L
- Place
- Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 14,681 × 12,690 pixels
Public domainsafest
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.
Credit line
"Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania" (1856). Kennedy, T. J.; Painter, Samuel Marshall; Bowen, John S.; Barnes, Rufus L. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania_LOC_2012590186.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15473.
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