A most important transportation map of Alabama from 1836. This map is color keyed for outline color to denote canals and railroads with roads left to engraving in the plate. The railroads were both in fact and proposed. Calls were proposed from Huntsville to Trim on the Tennessee River, Along the river, there is a canal planned to make Muscle Shoals passable, A Canal was authorized by Congress in 1831 to improve steamboat commerce on the river. It was abandoned and not completed until six decades later. A railroad, the Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur Railroad accomplished the muscle Shoals bypass in the mid-1830s and is shown on this map. A lengthly proposed railroad ran from Franklin Georgia to Montgomery, eventually the Montgomery & West Point Railroad Another railroad down the course of the Pigeon and Escambia rivers to Pensacola. This eventually became the Alabama & Florida Railroad. This is a scarce desirable map of Alabama that would fir in many important collections.

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Title: A New Map of Alabama
Publisher: Henry S. Tanner, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 1836
Binding: 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Condition: Very good condition

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