The First Map of Florida as an American Territory

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Map of Florida

Compiled and Drawn from various Actual Surveys & Observations: By Charles Vignoles

VIGNOLES, Charles
Philadelphia,
Henry Schenk Tanner,
1823
Folding pocket map, with contemporary hand-colour in outline, with publisher's label "Florida", short printer's crease along left border.
690 by 590mm. (27.25 by 23.25 inches).
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Vignoles' map was the fundamental depiction of Florida for the nineteenth century. It was first map to show Florida as an American territory, the first map to name the everglades, and served as the pattern for the subsequent mapping of the peninsula for several decades.

Born in England of a Huguenot family, Vignoles served in the British army and then went to South Carolina where he was appointed assistant to that colony's Surveyor General. In 1820 he went to Fl...

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Clark Travels in the Old South, II: 273; Howes Usiana, V97; Ristow, American Maps & Map Makers, pp. 131-2; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 251; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Vignoles, Keith H. Charles Blacker Vignoles: Romantic Engineer (1982), p. 15-22; Vignoles, Keith H. "Charles Blacker Vignoles in South Carolina and Florida, 1817-23" (South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 83-107.)

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