Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
Title: | Map of Yazoo County, Miss. containing the public roads, schools, churches, precincts, farms, residences, gins &c., &c. as located by surveys made by Mercer and Fontaine, projected & drawn from the field notes, records, &c. by J. W. Mercer. |
Author: | Mercer, J.W. |
Scale: | ca. 1 inch to 4,224 feet |
Situation Date: | 1874 |
Publication Date: | 1874 |
Type: | Original |
Features: | Drainage showing width and depth of streams, lakes, ridges, sections, beat lines, state owned lands, property boundaries with names of owners/residents and size in acres, some named properties, e.g. Balfore, China Grove, schools, churches, gins, houses, ferries, stage stops,. |
Comments: | Features Note: Illustrations around map title: railroad station scene at top center; buck deer below it; eagle in upper right corner; and steamship below it. Publication Note: "National Lith. Institute, Chicago." Noted on Mississippi Archives copy-""G. W. Terry. Map colorer & mounter, Rice’s Building, 79 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill." |
Coverage: | Yazoo County |
Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Mercer and Fontaine |
Size (inches): | 57 X 58 |
Color: | Y |