047 Gotha Northwest 1872 Paper Products:11"x14" Print

047 Gotha Northwest 1872 Paper Products:11"x14" PrintThis map was first published in Germany in 1872 and is extraordinarily detailed. Editions continuing well into the 20th century. It was one of the most comprehensive and best executed 19th century German atlases. The original atlas is bound in half leather brown cloth covered boards with "Stieler's Hand Atlas" stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. This atlas is known for it's maps containing more information than is typically found in an atlas

which dates from the late 13th Century

Both British explorer George Vancouver (1792) and American explorer Charles Wilkes (1841) noted that the Skagit of Penn Cove formed the most densely populated native community in the region – a veritable native Manhattan

Hixon Forest came under the ownership of the City as a natural resource based park

the level of the water was nearly 500 feet higher than it is now and the lake drained through the Elmo valley to the west of the lake

Johns River

designed around the 1850s

France to Santiago

was built in 1911

one thing that is going strong is the economic benefits the river continues to provide

it was referred to as Osage Reservoir or Lake Osage

army supply depot

some two million years ago