{"product_id":"texas-in-1855","title":"Texas in 1855 - Austin, Fredericksburg, Laredo","description":"\u003cp\u003eJ. H. Colton of New York issued this map of Texas in 1855 as part of the first edition of his General Atlas, and it is the only edition of the plate ever printed in single-page format before later reissues split the state across multiple sheets. The map is unusually rich in named routes, tracing Indian trails, Connelly's Trail, the proposed Pacific Railroad route, Smith and Whitney's Route, the road to Fort Smith, and the Laredo, Upper Presidio, and Lower Presidio Roads all at once, alongside a still-incomplete set of organized counties across western Texas. It captures the state in the middle of a wave of German immigration, recording the settlements of the Adelsverein colonization society in Gillespie County at a moment when thousands of German families were carving new towns out of the Texas Hill Country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustin, the state capital on the Colorado River, anchors the map's center amid the converging network of roads and trails Colton's engravers recorded in unusual detail. Fredericksburg, founded in 1846 by the Adelsverein German colonization society, appears at the heart of Gillespie County, one of the map's named German settlement areas and still a young frontier town in 1855. Laredo, on the Rio Grande, gives its name to the Laredo Road, one of several named trade routes linking Texas to Mexico across the map's incompletely organized southwestern counties. Large insets of Sabine Lake and the Galveston area round out the sheet, the first Colton edition to show the whole of Texas on a single page without splitting the northern or western portions into separate insets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map suits a Texas family, a Fredericksburg or Laredo transplant, or a collector interested in the state's German immigration history and its many named frontier trails. Among the store's several other Texas sheets, this first-edition Colton map is distinguished by its unique single-page format and its detailed record of the Gillespie County German settlements. It is available unframed in a range of sizes, from a small accent print to a large statement piece for any room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506632523,"sku":"SKU2003-16x20","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506665291,"sku":"SKU2003-A2","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506698059,"sku":"SKU2003-18x24","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506730827,"sku":"SKU2003-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506763595,"sku":"SKU2003-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506796363,"sku":"SKU2003-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506829131,"sku":"SKU2003-70x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506861899,"sku":"SKU2003-75x100","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532506894667,"sku":"SKU2003-A0","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2003.jpg?v=1789850543","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/texas-in-1855","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}