{"product_id":"ohio-in-1856-columbus-cincinnati-cleveland","title":"Ohio in 1856 - Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Morse issued this map of Ohio in 1856 as part of his General Atlas of the World, a work built largely on updated plates from the earlier Morse \u0026amp; Breese North American Atlas of 1845 but revised for a new decade of readers. Morse's Ohio sheet is colored by county and township rather than left as a bare outline, a production choice that let readers track the state's fine-grained local government at a glance rather than just its outer boundary. Unlike most maps in Morse's atlas, which were simple updates of the 1845 originals, some of the atlas's companion sheets, notably Iowa, were entirely new productions, a detail that speaks to how selectively Morse chose which maps were worth fully redrawing versus lightly revising. Published five years before the Civil War, the map documents Ohio as a mature, fully settled free state whose county lines had long since stabilized, a contrast to the still-forming territories further west that atlases of the same decade were racing to keep current.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColumbus anchors the state as its capital, chosen in 1812 for its central location and by 1856 a growing rail hub tying the state's county seats together. Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, was already the state's largest city and one of the busiest inland ports in the country, its economy built on river trade and pork packing. Cleveland, on Lake Erie, was emerging as the northern terminus for canal and rail routes carrying Ohio grain and goods toward the Great Lakes. The map's county-and-township coloring makes Ohio's dense railroad network, its towns, roads, mountains, rivers, and lakes, easy to trace against the administrative grid beneath it, with growth by 1856 running along three separate corridors, river, rail, and lake, rather than any single artery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA natural gift for an Ohio family, a Buckeye transplant furnishing a new home, or a collector tracking how the state's map changed between its early statehood years and the eve of the Civil War. It sits four decades after the store's other Ohio sheet, a Mathew Carey edition from 1814, and where that earlier map shows a state still filling in its river valleys, this Morse edition documents a fully organized Ohio with a mature county and rail network already in place. It's available unframed in a range of sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326113611,"sku":"SKU1964-16x20","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326146379,"sku":"SKU1964-A2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326179147,"sku":"SKU1964-18x24","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326211915,"sku":"SKU1964-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326244683,"sku":"SKU1964-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326277451,"sku":"SKU1964-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326310219,"sku":"SKU1964-70x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326342987,"sku":"SKU1964-75x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532326375755,"sku":"SKU1964-A0","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1964.jpg?v=1789841835","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/ohio-in-1856-columbus-cincinnati-cleveland","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}