Encyclopedia of the New American Nation Vol 1 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Non-Fiction, Reference
Published: 2011-01-08T06:00:00+00:00

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C A R T O G R A P H Y

returned to New York to become the state’s first sur-

many maps published in the late eighteenth century.

veyor general in 1784. In that post he had an illustri-

The answer was to conduct surveys and make maps.

ous career that involved producing a detailed map of

From 1800 to 1838, much of the mapping of the na-

the state in 1802, a map of the route of the Erie Canal

tional territory was undertaken by the military on

(1808), and a map of Manhattan in 1811. The Man-

an informal, ad hoc basis. The resulting maps were

hattan map laid down the system of streets and ave-

essentially claims to territory, paper trails in a quest

nues that guided the subsequent development of the

for imperial expansion.

city, giving it a distinctive grid alignment.

Federal mapping of the unexplored territory was

a spasmodic affair. Survey teams were sent out on

E X P L O R I N G T H E W E S T

an irregular basis with differing aims, methods, and

Before expansion could properly take place, the new

agendas. The most famous is the Lewis and Clark ex-

nation needed to understand what lay in the blank

pedition, sent out by Jefferson to find a trade route

space of the West, called “unexplored territory” on

to the Pacific. The manuscript map by William Clark

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