1851 Map of Virginia by Thomas Cowperthwait — Original Hand-Colored Steel Engraving, Custom Framed Mexico It also traces the routes

It also traces the routes of the great discoverers who sailed strange seas and penetrated misty continents to add new areas to the known world

First landing of Columbus

including Berlin and Assateague

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1851 Map of Virginia by Thomas Cowperthwait — Original Hand-Colored Steel Engraving, Custom Framed Mexico It also traces the routesAn attractive and historically important map of Virginia published by Thomas Cowperthwait in Philadelphia in 1851. Issued a decade before the creation of West Virginia, the map depicts the Commonwealth in its original, undivided form and offers a fascinating snapshot of transportation and development in the mid 19th century. Particularly noteworthy is the detailed inset profile of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal across the upper portion of the map,