I'm a bit of a cartophile. I just purchased this Antebellum Florida map to add to our collection of cool antique stuff to put on the walls of the Cocoa Beach restaurant. I think this one is particularly interesting. Check it out!

It's part of an 1847 Atlas called 'Mitchell's Universal Atlas, published in Philadelphia. I bought an original print that used engraved plates and hand colored printing. It's pretty great!

Cool!!

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COOL! I was looking for the like button.

Be careful,

that map does not show the

updated tolls

around orlando and tampa

 

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Great find!!

Thanks for sharing!

"the like button"

LOL, I do that all the time also.

Cool map. Too bad it still isn't called Mosquito county. Maybe would have slowed down all the development.

Awesome! I have a bit of a map fetish as well. Especially old maps. One of the coolest gifts that my wife got me was a turn-of the-century worls atlas. 

Very cool find!

 

 

I'd like to add that the Little Bar is NOT south of Matanzas anymore,

FYI - It's been re-located to over in Goodland, on Marco Island.

 

Nice- Seb Inlet didn't even exist yet.

Seems Ft. Pierce did

I have an affinity for old maps too. The back of an old Florida map that I have breaks the population down by county. It's pretty crazy to think that in 1880 there were only 257 people in Dade County!

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I thought it was oddly specific on the map for the mapmaker to say that they were on the NE corner of Market and 7th in Philadelphia. I figured I'd Google Street View it to see what it looked like there now:

https://goo.gl/maps/CmMWxDwfcDT2

There's a big US Courthouse on that corner now, but neat old buildings still around it.

Not only that, but Miami and Orlando aren't even on the map yet!

Mosquito? Now its Palm Beach, Okeechobee, Martin, St. Lucie, Brevard and and Volusia. I love it when these maps are on the Antique Road show and they go through it. Very cool.

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I'd love to have a print of that to hang up. Assuming that's an original please protect it from UV and thieves.

Thread of the month right here.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

I found this 1837 book from a google search after looking at this map wondering somethings.

Great description of Florida for that time period!

The Territory of Florida: Or Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural ...
By John Lee William
http://books.google.com/books?...cker%20florida&f=false