Historical Maps
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has cataloged over 2,500 maps in its "published information" collection. They include hand-drawn sketches of towns, localities, plantations, and battlefields, as well as published maps from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries.
MDAH staff digitized over 600 paper maps for this online exhibit. The earliest is a triptych printed by the famous Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1588, including La Florida, drawn by Geronimo Chaves. In his book The Southeast in Early Maps, William P. Cumming called La Florida "one of the half-dozen most important mother maps of southeastern North America." Several maps in the exhibit trace the history of Mississippi from early exploration through colonial expansion, the territorial period, and statehood. Others are hand-drawn plans and plats of towns, such as P. A. Van Dorn's original plan for the city of Jackson in 1822.
Many maps can also be found in other MDAH collections, such as government records and personal papers. One such example is included in this exhibit, the colorful map of the town of Washington, Mississippi, hand drawn by B. L. C. Wailes in the town's 1838 Minute Book. Maps that other state government agencies (especially the Mississippi Department of Transportation) have scanned to document work projects and then transferred to MDAH are not included here but can be accessed with other electronic government records.
Read MoreThe Mississippi Department of Archives and History has cataloged over 2,500 maps in its "published information" collection. They include hand-drawn sketches of towns, localities, plantations, and battlefields, as well as published maps from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries.
MDAH staff digitized over 600 paper maps for this online exhibit. The earliest is a triptych printed by the famous Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1588, including La Florida, drawn by Geronimo Chaves. In his book The Southeast in Early Maps, William P. Cumming called La Florida "one of the half-dozen most important mother maps of southeastern North America." Several maps in the exhibit trace the history of Mississippi from early exploration through colonial expansion, the territorial period, and statehood. Others are hand-drawn plans and plats of towns, such as P. A. Van Dorn's original plan for the city of Jackson in 1822.
Many maps can also be found in other MDAH collections, such as government records and personal papers. One such example is included in this exhibit, the colorful map of the town of Washington, Mississippi, hand drawn by B. L. C. Wailes in the town's 1838 Minute Book. Maps that other state government agencies (especially the Mississippi Department of Transportation) have scanned to document work projects and then transferred to MDAH are not included here but can be accessed with other electronic government records.
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13919-01-map.tif
Map of Georgia & Alabama: exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c / by David
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191219
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13919-02-map.tif
Map of Georgia & Alabama: exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c / by David
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191220
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14175-map-1.tif
Towns of the Creek confederacy : as shown on the early map of Georgia, 1818.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/1056140
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8050-1-map.tif
A map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with part of New Jersey &c.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191046
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14003-map.tif
A map of the country adjacent to the River Misisipi /copied by A[lexander] S[potswood] from the original
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191243
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13840-01-map.tif
Map of the country between Milliken's Bend, La., and Jackson, Miss. : Vicksburg campaign.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191156
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13879-01-map.tif
A new map of Georgia, with part of Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana : drawn from original draughts, assisted
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191180
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14033-map.tif
A map of the country comprised in the state of Mississippi : as known in the year 1764 / by Eman.
From: Emanuel Bowen's A New Map of Georgia, with Parts of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, published
A new map of Georgia, with parts of Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191254
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8038-01-map.tif
A new map of part of the United States of North America : containing the Carolinas and Georgia, also
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191041
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98570-map-1.tif
Birds-eye view of the Mississippi River and the adjacent country, from St.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191682
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98570-map-2.tif
Birds-eye view of the Mississippi River and the adjacent country, from St.
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191683
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72489-01-map.tif
Post route map of the states of Alabama and Mississippi, with adjacent parts of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191514
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72489-02-map.tif
Post route map of the states of Alabama and Mississippi, with adjacent parts of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191515
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13947_1_map.tif
the Mitchell map (1755) to show the trail probably followed by De Soto's army from the Chickasaw country
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191231
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8059-01-map.tif
southern dominions belonging to the United States of America, viz North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191053
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72513-01-map.tif
Exhibit map to cross-bill in case state of Louisiana versus state of Mississippi : Supreme Court of United
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191534
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8042-1-map.tif
A map of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia : comprehending the Spanish
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191044
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14135-1-map.tif
13 provinces avec leurs limites suivant le traite de paix fait le 20 Janvier 1783 / par Lamarche, Geogr
https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/maps/detail/191295
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