Maps

Official Highway Map of Clay County, Missouri
Title
Official Highway Map of Clay County, Missouri
Description
Highly detailed map showing various classes of roads and railroads, levees, bridges, schools, dwellings (in rural areas), mines and quarries, etc. in Clay County, Missouri.
Date
1965
Object Type
Map
Parker's Geological Map of the State of Missouri
Title
Parker's Geological Map of the State of Missouri
Description
Title continues: "showing the location of the principal deposits of iron, lead, zinc, tin, copper, diamonds, gold, silver, platina, nickel, manganese, alabaster, kaolin, coal, oil springs, &c." Photocopy of a map of Missouri showing mineral deposits, railroads, roads, and towns. Includes tabular information giving population by county (1860 census), along with statistics of ore production.
Date
1865
Object Type
Map
A Map Exhibiting the Locality of the Nebraska Gold Mines and the Routes Thereto
Title
A Map Exhibiting the Locality of the Nebraska Gold Mines and the Routes Thereto
Description
Map of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, as well as Nebraska and Kansas Territories, showing railroad routes from Chicago, Saint Louis, and other towns to the Missouri River, past which various roads heading to the Rocky Mountain gold mines are shown. A table lists distances to Fort St. Vrain, a town at the eastern edge of the gold region, in Nebraska Territory.
Date
1859
Object Type
Map