Washington & Oregon Territories Map 1857 Regional Print - Portland, Olympia, Salem

Henry Darwin Rogers and Alexander Keith Johnston issued this Territories of Washington and Oregon sheet in 1857, published in London by Edward Stanford and engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston of Edinburgh, part of their Atlas of the United States. This printing shows both territories in full and outline color, with proposed railways marked in purple and counties outlined in orange, two years before Oregon's own 1859 statehood. The sheet maps Washington and Oregon jointly, a British-published view of the Pacific Northwest while it was still entirely territorial.

County boundaries are marked in orange across both territories, an early administrative layer laid over a region still governed as unorganized territory rather than states. The proposed railway routes marked in purple capture transcontinental rail plans that existed only on paper in 1857, decades before any such line would actually reach the Pacific Northwest. Settlement in 1857 remained concentrated in the Willamette Valley and around Puget Sound, the region's two earliest-settled corridors. Together the counties, the proposed railways, and the concentrated settlement sketch a Pacific Northwest still years away from either territory's rail connections or, for Washington, its eventual statehood.

For an Oregon or Washington family with territorial-era roots, or a collector drawn to this British-published perspective on the American frontier, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Oregon from Cram's 1893, 1883, and Asher & Adams' 1874 editions, and both territories combined in Mitchell's later 1884 sheet elsewhere in this collection; this 1857 Rogers and Johnston sheet is the only one in the store to map both territories two years before Oregon achieved statehood. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.