{"product_id":"ohio-in-1814-chillicothe-cincinnati-marietta","title":"Ohio in 1814 - Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Marietta","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis map of Ohio was issued in Philadelphia in 1814, most likely as part of the American Atlas series published by Mathew Carey, the Dublin-born publisher whose Philadelphia firm produced the first general atlas of the United States in 1795 and continued revising it in expanded editions through the 1810s. Carey's atlas relied on a roster of American engravers, including William Barker, Amos Doolittle, and Benjamin Tanner, with Samuel Lewis serving as the house geographer and draftsman who shaped many of the firm's state maps. This sheet ranks among the earliest detailed printed maps of Ohio, laying out towns, roads, rivers, and mountain ranges just twelve years after the state's 1803 admission to the Union, when its surveyed public-land grid was still being extended into the interior. Published in the middle of the War of 1812, a conflict that brought fighting to Ohio's own Lake Erie shore at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813, the map documents a young frontier state still consolidating its hold on land only recently ceded by Native nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChillicothe, Ohio's first state capital and seat of government until the legislature moved to the newly platted town of Columbus in 1816, anchors the map's interior as the political center of a state whose capital location was still unsettled at the time of printing. Cincinnati, already the state's commercial engine, sat on the Ohio River as the primary point where settlers, goods, and river trade entered and left the state. Marietta, founded in 1788 as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory, gave Ohio its historical anchor on the Muskingum River, a starting point for the wave of New England settlement that followed. The map's roads and river networks radiate outward from these three points, tracing a state whose government, commerce, and founding history had not yet consolidated into the single Columbus-centered map later editions would show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a fitting gift for an Ohio family tracing roots to the state's earliest river-valley settlements, a collector of early Carey American Atlas maps, or anyone drawn to a young Ohio still governed from Chillicothe rather than Columbus. It predates the store's other Ohio sheet, an 1856 Charles Morse edition, by more than four decades, and shows a state still consolidating its capital and county lines rather than the mature rail network the later map documents. Available unframed in a full range of sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326474059,"sku":"SKU1965-16x20","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326506827,"sku":"SKU1965-A2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326539595,"sku":"SKU1965-18x24","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326572363,"sku":"SKU1965-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326605131,"sku":"SKU1965-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326637899,"sku":"SKU1965-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326670667,"sku":"SKU1965-70x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326703435,"sku":"SKU1965-75x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326736203,"sku":"SKU1965-A0","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1965.jpg?v=1789841826","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/ohio-in-1814-chillicothe-cincinnati-marietta","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}