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Built by Reynolds and Doyle Woodworking, Paducah, KY
Lewis & Clark Era Maps & Survey Instrument Display
Cairo Public Library (A.B. Safford Memorial Library)
A special cabinet and work desk was created to display seven late 1700s and early 1800s maps of special significance to the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi River region. A second display cabinet, matching in size and detail as the adjacent original cabinets from the U. S. Custom House was constructed to house a collection of survey instruments and books of the early 1800s period on loan by Steve Crain, survey equipment manufacturer and collector of Mound City, Illinois.
The Maps
Course of the Mississippi from
Balie to Fort Chartres
From
1765 Expedition to the Illinois, by
Lieut. Rofs of the 34th regiment, Printed
1772 – London
Note:
Ohio or Faie River
Ancient
Fort Destroyed near the confluence
Cape Girardot, Race
Island and Rapid Whirlpool
A New Map of the United States
of America from the Latest Authority
1806 by
John Cary, Engineer, Printed
in London
Note:
Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are part of The Western
Territory
Fort
Jefferson is indicated on the Mississippi River just south of the
confluence of the Ohio with the Mississipp
Confluence, Townships
14-17 Range 4 W to Range 2 E of the 3rd Principal
Meridian
City
of Cairo and towns of Trinity, Mounds, America,
Caledonia, Atherton are indicated
French
Lots indicated at Township 16 Range 2 & 3 West
Note
indication of road to a Tavern at the Confluence, Cach
River indicated , (now known as Cache River),.est. circa 1818
Actual Survey Made by the
United States of Township 17 and part of 16
Exhibits
the Land belonging to the Cairo City and Canal Company, New York
– 1839, William
Strickland, Architect and Engineer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Note:
This map is not of the Lewis & Clark era, but is based on the
survey of Map #3 above
Plat of Town of America
Platted
east of the 3rd Principal Meridian adjacent to the Ohio
River, With
landowners, including the U.S., and a section set aside for School. No Date. Estimated circa 1818, Original
in Goshen Public Library and Historical Society, Goshen, NY
Plan of the City of Cairo,
Illinois
Cone &
Freeman, sc. Baltimore, Commissioned
by John Comegys as the first formal city plan layout for the proposed
City of Cairoindicating Public Square and Market
Squares, and a Levee completely surrounding the city. Latitude
37 degrees 15 minutes north and Longitude 89 degrees west of
Washington, No Date
– estimated circa 1818
Geographical and Statistical
and Historical Map of Illinois – No. 33
3rd
Principal Meridian and southernmost and western survey sections
clearly indicated. Note southernmost towns of Cairo, America,
and WilkinsonVille and Fort Massac are indicated,
although the Chief Towns listed in the text are Kaskaskia,
Cahokia, Shawneetown, Edwardsville, and Vandalia (the seat
of the government at that time), 1822
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Built by Reynolds and Doyle Woodworking, Paducah, KY
Map Cabinet and Work Desk Reproduction Survey Design by Robert Swenson, Architect Instrument Display Cabinet
