by Don Barker | Jun 28, 2022 | Historic Landscape, Historic Sites Mapping
Historical Maps from the David Rumsey Collection Maryland’s Eastern Shore and what later became Caroline County were first mapped by Augustine Hermann in 1670. Many of the maps which show the Eastern Shore since 1670 have been preserved and digitized by the...
by Don Barker | Jun 25, 2022 | Historic Landscape, Historic Sites Mapping
We can see the Caroline County landscape in 1897, thanks to the efforts of two county citizens working 72 years apart. I found no reference to M. L. Saulsbury’s mapmaking in the Denton Journal around 1897. So I’m not sure why this map was made. And I...
by Don Barker | Jun 6, 2022 | Historic Landscape, Historic Sites Mapping
We give you two ways to explore the 1875 John B. Isler map of Caroline County and compare it to the modern landscape: Spyglass View Swipe View In each of these maps, click the icon in the upper left: Do you like what you're reading here? Please consider donating to...
by Don Barker | Apr 9, 2021 | Historic Sites Mapping
1875. Take another look. In 1875, Caroline County Surveyor John B. Isler published an offical map of the county “by an Act of Congress”. Ten years ago, we found a ragged paper copy of the Isler map at the Denton public library, scanned it, and published...
by Don Barker | Jan 15, 2021 | Everyday Citizens, Historic Sites Mapping
This article shows you how to use the Choptank River HeritageFamily Search Map to find names of persons who owned farms and businesses in Caroline County in the 1890s. Open the map app. Type a family name (last name) into the Search box. Not case sensitive....
by Don Barker | Apr 29, 2019 | Historic Sites Mapping
Jumptown? Casho’s Mills? Furman’s Grove? Jadwins Creek? These were the names of real places in Caroline County 50 or 250 years ago. The places are still there, but many of the place names are lost to memory. Now you can find them again and Stand in the...
by Don Barker | Nov 29, 2018 | Colonial Era, Historic Sites Mapping
Lord Baltimore commissioned the Bohemian-Dutch merchant Augustine Hermann to produce a map of his Maryland colony in exchange for a large land grant near the head of Chesapeake Bay. Hermann’s map was published in England in 1670. In his A Biography of...
by Don Barker | Jul 3, 2017 | Historic Sites Mapping
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) started printing beautiful paper maps of the American West in the 1860s. Then worked its way east until it finally got to: Those are the USGS topo map quadrants that cover the Choptank River watershed (1:62500 scale). USGS is...
by Don Barker | May 12, 2017 | Historic Sites Mapping
I created a map app where you can compare hi-res USGS topo maps of the Choptank River watershed for different time frames, 1898-1944. I did it by downloading KMZ files using the USGS TopoView app and publishing them on my own web server. Then adding the URLs to my...
by Don Barker | Dec 23, 2016 | Historic Sites Mapping
The 1875 and 1897 maps of Caroline County show where hotels, stores and shops, churches, fairgrounds, and many other kinds of places were located over 100 years ago. After you check-in, look for the View larger map link where you can check-on and check-off the 1875...
by Don Barker | Feb 21, 2015 | Historic Sites Mapping
Mapper Eric Fischer has created the most detailed tweet map ever. Six billion tweets over 3.5 years – worldwide: What does the map look like closer to home? Zoom in here and look around: Zoomed out, it looks like a population density map. Like a census map...
by Don Barker | Jul 3, 2014 | Historic Sites Mapping
If change was inevitable, so was the map that shows it. See changes in Caroline County, 1875 – 1897 – 1905.
