Map of Brown Co. Illinois. Compiled & Published...
Stepney, Connecticut: R. Thornton Higgins, 1871. A real estate map with massive notations of land owners, businesses and areas that have just been opened for subdivision. As it was produced by a Connecticut mapmaker, one presumes it was marketed to potential Western emigrants in Connecticut. Large folding map, lithograph with original hand color. "Engr. by Worley and Bracher, Philada."/ Shows townships and sections, landowners, roads, railroads, and creeks./ Insets and business directories of Versailles, Ripley, Mound Station, Cooperstown, Buckhorn, and Mt. Sterling. Insets of Mount Pleasant and LaGrange Illinois. OCLC: 318804625 cites only a copy at Western Illinois University. 28 x 33" plus margins, separately published. Old folds, many closed tears repaired archivally. Very attractive. Item #20169
Price: $350.00