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The dead towns of Georgia

Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893 · 1878 · Savannah, Morning News Steam Printing House · 5 pictures

Published in Savannah in 1878 by the Morning News Steam Printing House, this antiquarian study by Charles C. Jones records the abandoned settlements of colonial and early American Georgia for a regional readership of historians and local antiquarians. Its pictures are hand-drawn survey maps with fine ink river lines, stippled marsh ground, and gridded town plans, offering a designer ideas for early cartographic linework, plot layouts, and schematic land division.

Extinct cities

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library