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Scott's map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

General-content county map also showing rural buildings with householders' names, lot lines in rural subdivisions/villages, and election districts. Relief shown by hachures. Differs from other 1842 ed. in not being hand col., not being shellacked, and in being oriented with north toward the upper right. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1842 by Jos'a Scott, in the Clerks Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Printed in north/south/east/west segments (sheets). ); also includes extra printed sections of map border designed to be cut away and repositioned when the 4 sheets are conjoined.

Date
1842
Mapmaker / publisher
Scott, Joshua; Tide Water Canal Company
Place
Pennsylvania
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,414 × 8,609 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

"Scott's map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." (1842). Scott, Joshua; Tide Water Canal Company. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott%27s_map_of_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania._LOC_2012592190.jpg

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