[Draft Survey of Delaware River from Easton to Head of Tide]

Item

Title

[Draft Survey of Delaware River from Easton to Head of Tide]

Creator

Isaac A. Chapman

Date

1826

Description

A manuscript map produced for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company for developing a canal to transport anthracite coal from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia along the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers. This is a draft map made by Surveyor Issac Chapman for the production of the LCNC map "A Chart of the River Deleware." Physical features include the river, islands, settlements and channels. Many notes and annotations included in this draft are unique and do not appear in the final printed version of the map. Map image is supplemented with two items of ephemera. These list vertical measurements at key points along the course of the survey.

Spatial Coverage

Easton, Delaware River, Trenton, Lamberton

Provenance

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, National Canal Museum

Rights

For a high resolution image of this map and permission to reproduce, please contact the Collections Manager, National Canal Museum.

Source

National Canal Museum

Item sets

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