Florida Map 1839 Territorial Print - Pensacola, Tallahassee, St. Augustine

Henry S. Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Florida sheet in 1839, included in the 1842 edition of his New Universal Atlas, the last he personally published after three decades spent building a reputation as one of America's most trusted cartographers. This printing carries three separate insets detailing Pensacola, Tallahassee, and the harbor of St. Augustine, an unusually generous level of city-level detail for a territory that had not yet reached statehood when the map was drawn. The sheet maps Florida as a territory rather than a state, six years before its 1845 admission to the Union, drawn in the middle of the Second Seminole War that was actively reshaping settlement across the peninsula's interior.

Pensacola's inset shows its street grid and standing as a key western port, while Tallahassee's inset lays out the territorial capital's own structured grid, a young city built deliberately as an administrative seat rather than grown organically around trade. St. Augustine's harbor inset highlights the town's standing as the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the country, its Spanish colonial roots predating every other place mapped on this sheet by more than two centuries. County boundaries are colored across the peninsula, though much of the interior remained sparsely marked, a reflection of how unsettled Florida's interior still was relative to its three highlighted coastal and capital towns.

For a Florida family with Pensacola, Tallahassee, or St. Augustine roots, or a collector building out the territory's pre-statehood maps, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Florida from Cram's later 1893 and 1883 editions, and from Bradford's 1838 atlas; this 1839 Tanner sheet is the only one of the group to give Pensacola, Tallahassee, and St. Augustine each their own dedicated inset rather than treating Florida as a single undifferentiated territory. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.