State of Louisiana manhattan "Bermuda Hundred from Surveys under

"Bermuda Hundred from Surveys under the direction of Bvt

as well as rail lines and the situations of the docks

The image size is approximately 16 x 19

An interesting and uncommon instance of the new style of shaded relief that was capturing imaginations at the time

next to a large section of land noted as "Donation Lands from the Commonwealth of Virginia"

State of Louisiana manhattan "Bermuda Hundred from Surveys underState of Louisiana, GLO, 1879 Early in the 19th century the U. S. founded an agency to manage the surveying, platting and sale of the public lands in the western U. S. If you think back to the massive growth and acquisitions throughout the 19th century, it was an astounding challenge to manage. Spanning from Florida and the deep south, all the way west through the trans Mississippi lands, to the West Coast, it was hundreds of millions of acres.