Hand colored map, 14 1/4" x 17 1/4", 1867, of the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, with inset maps of Pleasantville and Pleasantville Station and a Pleasantville Business Directory, from Atlas of New York and Vicinity from Actual Surveys by and Under the Direction of F. W. Beers, Assisted by Geo E Warner and Others, published by F. W. Beers, A. D. Ellis and G. G. Soule. Included in the town of Mount Pleasant are Beekmantown, Sleepy Hollow, East Tarrytown, and Unionville as well as Pleasantville. The map shows districts, home and land owners, businesses, roads, railroads, and rivers. Inset maps show lots, landowners and businesses. The scale of the map is given as 1 2/3 inches to the mile and the scale of the insets as 30 rods to the inch.
F. W. Beers first published his Atlas of New York and Vicinity in 1867. The atlas chiefly contains maps of Westchester, Dutchess and Putnam counties, New York. Various issues of the atlas were published in 1867 and 1868 with differences in the number and selection of maps included by the publisher. "Beers tailored the contents of the atlases carefully. He prepared 137 maps for the area he called 'New York City and Vicinity' but no one atlas had more than 61, and one had as few as 36" (McCorkle, 40). The maps apparently were specially selected to be marketed in the different counties. See McCorkle for a detailed tabular listing of the maps in six different copies examined. Nine maps appeared in all six volumes McCorkle examined. The map of the town of Mount Pleasant appears in two of the six volumes. For more information on the Atlas of New York and Vicinity, see Barbara B. McCorkle 'The Strange Case of F.W. Beers and The Atlas of New York and Vicinity' in Meridian 5, pp.39-43. For more information on Beers and other mapmakers, see also Walter W. Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.
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Hand colored map, 14 1/4" x 17 1/4", 1867, of the town of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, with inset maps of Pleasantville and Pleasantville Station and a Pleasantville Business Directory, from Atlas of New York and Vicinity from Actual Surveys by and Under the Direction of F. W. Beers, Assisted by Geo E Warner and Others, published by F. W. Beers, A. D. Ellis and G.-G. Soule. Included in the town of Mount Pleasant are Beekmantown, Sleepy Hollow, East Tarrytown, and Unionville as well as Pleasantville. The map shows districts, home and land owners, businesses, roads, railroads, and rivers. Inset maps show lots, landowners and businesses. The scale of the map is given as 1 2/3 inches to the mile and the scale of the insets as 30 rods to the inch.
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[Identification of item], Town of Mt. Pleasant, Westchester Co, N.Y., Map, RBC 00009, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
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