Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
Title: | Post route map of the states of Alabama and Mississippi, with adjacent parts of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana showing post offices, with the intermediate distances between them... / Pub. by order of Postmaster Gen. Walter Q. Gresham, under the direction of C. Roeser, Jr., Topographer, Post Office Dept. |
Author: | Nicholson, W.L. |
Situation Date: | 1 inch to 10 miles |
Type: | Original |
Features: | Streams, railroads with distances between towns, towns and settlements with post offices, mileage between towns. |
Comments: | General Note: "Designed and constructed under the orders of Postmaster General Marshall Jewell..." Date Note: Updated editions of 1876, 1890, 1891 and 1894 are also on file at the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. An 1883 edition is on file at the Mississippi Archives authored by Roeser, C. Jr. with updated features including: mail routes symbolized to indicate beginning and ending of a route, special supply and intervals. between deliveries. |
Coverage: | Alabama, Mississippi, with adjacent parts of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana |
Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
Language: | English |
Size (inches): | 41 X 29 |
Link: | http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bibl ionumber=72489 |