{"product_id":"north-carolina-in-1804-raleigh-charlotte-wilmington","title":"North Carolina in 1804 - Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington","description":"\u003cp\u003eAaron Arrowsmith, the London hydrographer who by 1804 ran one of Britain's most exacting map businesses from Soho Square, engraved this map of North Carolina for distribution in the United States, one of several American state sheets commissioned from his shop. Arrowsmith's spare, meticulously updated style became the standard that American mapmakers imitated well into the 19th century, and his firm's reputation for careful survey work made it a natural source for state maps sold in the young republic. The sheet carries a separate inset in the lower left labeled \"Western Part of North Carolina continued,\" a device Arrowsmith used to fit the state's long east-west span onto one practical page rather than stretching the main map. Published in Philadelphia in 1804, the map documents North Carolina barely a decade after it ceded its western Tennessee lands to the federal government, when the state's population remained concentrated along its eastern rivers and the Piedmont interior was only beginning to fill in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map divides the state into its early counties, tracing boundaries that in 1804 still shifted as the legislature carved new counties out of older ones to keep pace with inland settlement. The western inset gives the Appalachian counties, generally the last and most sparsely surveyed part of the state, their own dedicated space rather than crowding them into the coastal-plain map. Raleigh, chosen in 1792 as a purpose-built inland capital, anchors the Piedmont; Wilmington, the state's principal Atlantic port on the Cape Fear River, handled most of the naval-stores and tobacco trade the eastern counties depended on; and Charlotte, still a small Piedmont county seat in 1804, sat decades from its later growth. Together the county grid and the western inset capture a state still being organized county by county.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA natural pick for a North Carolina family with Piedmont or coastal roots, a Tar Heel transplant furnishing a new home, or a collector assembling early state maps. It predates the store's other North Carolina sheet, an 1814 Mathew Carey edition, by a decade, and carries Arrowsmith's own exacting London engraving rather than Carey's later, more compact American reworking. Available unframed in a full range of print sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324737355,"sku":"SKU1960-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324770123,"sku":"SKU1960-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324802891,"sku":"SKU1960-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324835659,"sku":"SKU1960-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324868427,"sku":"SKU1960-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324901195,"sku":"SKU1960-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324933963,"sku":"SKU1960-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324966731,"sku":"SKU1960-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532324999499,"sku":"SKU1960-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1960.jpg?v=1789841827","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/north-carolina-in-1804-raleigh-charlotte-wilmington","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}