{"product_id":"virginia-in-1842","title":"Virginia in 1842 - Richmond, Norfolk, Wheeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeremiah Greenleaf of New York published this striking full-color map of Virginia in 1842, printed from plates he had acquired around 1840 from David H. Burr, whose Universal Atlas, first issued in 1836, was widely regarded as the most elegantly engraved American commercial atlas of its era. Burr had studied surveying under Simeon DeWitt before producing his New York State atlas, the second state atlas ever issued in the country, and his wash-colored, finely engraved state maps carried that same reputation for quality into this Virginia sheet. The map still shows Virginia in its full antebellum extent, stretching from the Chesapeake tidewater across the Blue Ridge to the Ohio River, two decades before the state's mountainous western counties would break away to form West Virginia during the Civil War, a division already foreshadowed by the sharply different plantation and non-slaveholding economies the map's county lines quietly divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichmond, the state capital since 1780, anchors the map at the falls of the James River, the historic center of Virginia's political and plantation economy. Norfolk, the state's principal deepwater port on the Chesapeake, sits at the mouth of the same river system, tying the tidewater tobacco trade to the wider Atlantic. Wheeling, far to the northwest on the Ohio River, appears as the westernmost significant town on the map, a growing industrial and shipping center whose economic ties ran more naturally toward Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley than toward Richmond. The Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains divide the sheet diagonally, separating the tidewater and Piedmont from the more sparsely settled trans-Allegheny counties in the state's far west.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map suits a Virginia family, a Richmond or Wheeling transplant, or a collector interested in the state's full antebellum extent before West Virginia's separation. The store also carries Sidney Morse's 1856 Virginia map, issued over a decade later on the eve of secession; that later sheet reflects further county subdivision in the west, while this earlier Greenleaf edition captures Virginia closer to its Burr-plate origins. It is available unframed in a range of sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479304011,"sku":"SKU1988-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479336779,"sku":"SKU1988-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479369547,"sku":"SKU1988-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479402315,"sku":"SKU1988-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479435083,"sku":"SKU1988-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479467851,"sku":"SKU1988-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479500619,"sku":"SKU1988-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479533387,"sku":"SKU1988-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532479566155,"sku":"SKU1988-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1988.jpg?v=1789850543","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/virginia-in-1842","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}