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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

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Phone: (703) 780-3600
Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Collection Ted and Mary Wendell early American collection Places North America

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: Of Aquanishuonîgy, the country of the Confederate Indians; comprehending Aquanishuonîgy proper, their place of residence, Ohio and Tïiuxsoxrúntie, their deer-hunting countries, Couxsaxráge and Skaniadarâde, their beaver-hunting countries; of the Lakes Erie, Ontário, and Champlain, and part of New-France: Wherein is also shewn the antient and present seats of the Indian nations 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 5, Folder OUT

Copied from the 1755 original, includes historical notes and 3 distance tables. It also locates hundreds of European and Native American settlements and depicts networks of roads and trails. Includes notations for Dartmouth College, the location of 'elephant bones', salt and limestone deposits, petroleum in western Pennsylvania, and coal in Ohio.

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A map of Louisiana and of the river Mississipi: this map of the Mississipi is most humbly inscribed to William Law of Lanreston, Esq 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 5

This map of French Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley is from,'A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world', 1721. Includes information about Native American settlements.

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Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane, et pays voisins: pour servir à l'Histoire générale des voyages 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 1b

Map of the Midwestern and Southern states, including Florida and Louisiana. Shows topographic features, locations of forts and missions, and Native American settlements. Appears in Jean Françoise de la Harpe's 'Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... atlas', 1780.

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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, la Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle Yorck, l'Isle de Terre Neuve, la Louisiane, et le cours de la riviere de Misisipi 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 1b

Map of Canada, and the East Coast of America including Florida, Virginia, New York, North and South Carolina, as well as the course of the Mississippi River. The map was engraved by Herman Van Loon and was part of Nicholas de Fer's 'Atlas Curieux'. Includes notes and a list of coordinates for various locations on the right side, as well as locations of various Native American settlements. The cartouche notes that this copy of the map is available from I.F. Benard (Jacques-François Benard), son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer, who took over the business after de Fer's death in 1720. Benard et al continued to sell de Fer's unaltered maps into the 1740s, dating this edition from c.1720-1747, with the original made in 1702.

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Map of the country between Washington & Pittsburg refering to the contemplated Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and its general route and profile, October 1826 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 5

Map showing the route of the proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with the route highlighted in red. Includes elevation profile in 3 segments, and 'Tranverse section of the canal'. Statement of responsibility: 'Reduced from the general map annexed to the report upon the contemplated canal and drawn, by Lieut. Farley, U.S.A. ; etched by Wm. Harrison, Georgetown, D.C. ; letter'd by D.R. Harrison'.

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Partie de l'Amérique septentrionale, qui comprend le cours de l'Ohio, la Nlle Angleterre, la Nlle York, le New Jersey, la Pensylvanie, le Maryland, la Virginie, la Caroline 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 5, Folder OUT

Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Shows provinces, towns, forts, tribal territories, and Native American settlements. Appears in Giles Robert de Vaugondy's 'Atlas Universal', 1757.

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Plan des achats des compagnies de l'Ohio et du Scioto 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section 1b, Folder OUT

The map was published to accompany 'Prospectus pour l'éstablissement sur les rivières d'Ohio et de Scioto en Amérique', 1789. The prospectus and map were issued by the Scioto Company, which was associated with the Ohio Company. The map shows Ohio from Lake Erie south to the Ohio River, and as far west as the Scioto.

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