Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina & Northern Florida Map 1883 Railroad Print - Montgomery, Atlanta, Charleston, Jacksonville

This is the New Rail Road and County Map of Alabama, Georgia, Sth. Carolina & Northern Florida, a map from Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, copyrighted 1883 by George Franklin Cram and published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey and Co. It belongs to the first edition of Cram's first "mass production" world atlas, sixty-five maps built to bring detailed, affordable geography to American households during a period of rapid postwar change.

Likely produced by lithography, the sheet is set at a scale of about 1:2,100,000, with red demarcating state boundaries and green marking county lines across all four areas. Railroads are prominently displayed, tracing the rail network that was reshaping the postwar Southeast, and the map includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean along its coastal edges. South Carolina's phosphate mines along the coast, feeding the young fertilizer industry, and the first cotton mills beginning to rise in the Piedmont counties of Georgia and Alabama mark the earliest stirrings of the industrial economy that would eventually challenge cotton farming's grip on the region. Both Greenwich and Washington prime meridians are marked on the sheet.

This print suits anyone with roots in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, or Florida, a family that worked the rail lines shown here, a transplant who left the Deep South, or a collector building a run of Cram's 1883 atlas maps. It also makes a fitting housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift. Every print ships unframed and comes in multiple sizes.