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Hand-drawn map of Knox County's 2nd civil district showing residences, schools, churches, ferries and quarries. The Holston and French Broad rivers are drawn and colored blue. The pink and penciled no…

An undated map of Dickson County (Tenn.) showing rural delivery routes, dwellings, schools, cemeteries, communities, stores and churches. Probably executed during the 1920s-1930s, this very detailed R…

Map of Nashville and surrounding area with a focus on the infrastructure of the city. Roads are shown and named, as are railroads, rivers, and Berry Field is denoted. Neighborhoods are named and civil…

A 1901 map of Montgomery County (Tenn.) surveyed by J.E. Lapham and M.F. Miller with the base map being drawn from a county map. This detailed map shows soil types by color, house structures, streams…

This topographical map depicts most of the geographic details of the region including rivers, lakes, creeks, valleys, mountains, and gaps. Roads, highways, trails, dams, cities and towns are also show…

Hand-drawn map of the French Broad and Holston rivers country showing Knoxville, Sevierville, and Maryville, Bays Mountain, roads, and various creeks and forks throughout the area. This map, along wit…

This massive and incredibly detailed map depicts British possessions in the New World after the French and Indian War. Towns, forts, hand-colored colonial borders, factories, stations, roads, mines, a…

Map of the Ocoee District to elucidate the 4th report of G[erard] Troost, Geologist of the State of Tennessee. The Ocoee District lay in extreme southeastern corner of Tennessee and was the last part…

Detailed, after-the-fact reconstruction of the Battlefield of Nashville, Dec. 15-16th, 1864, drawn by Wilbur F. Foster, Major Engineer Corps, Confederate States of America. Foster, a Nashville enginee…

Manuscript map showing south central Kentucky and north central Tennessee, including an area presumed to be the Allardt Land Company property (shown with hatched lines). Map shows towns, creeks, and r…

A 1930s map of Cocke County (Tenn.) showing rural delivery routes, dwellings, churches, schools, and rivers. Landowners are named. Also shown are the French Broad River, the Nolichucky River, the Big…

Plate L of the Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, containing six small maps relating to battles and troop positions during the Civil War. Five of t…

Map of the proposed Tennessee location for the Superconducting Supercollider, a massive particle accelerator. Geologists suggested parts of Rutherford, Williamson, Bedford, and Marshall counties to co…

Hand-drawn map of Wayne County, Tennessee showing the new civil districts. The towns of Waynesboro, Carrollville, and Shanonville [Shannonsville]. Some residences are specifically denoted by squares,…

A map accompanying a letter from John Drake to Gov. John Sevier detailing the Road from the courthouse in Nashville to the Georgia Road. The surveyed road runs first from Nashville to Fort Nash, a sho…

A color map showing Tennessee roughly at the time of statehood in 1796, drawn by Lucas Fielding. This topographical map shows early counties, roads (including the Natchez Trace), crossings on the Tenn…

Survey of James Park's estate near Knoxville containing about 470 acres. This area presently makes up the Sequoyah Hills neighborhood. Looney's Island is drawn in the Holston River, as is Peter Varner…

Map and field call description of Washington County civil district boundaries. Each district is named and numbered. County lines are drawn. Other features include Looking Glass Mountain, the Watauga R…

Hand-drawn map of Cocke County that outlines the newly established civil districts. Part of the Pigeon River and the French Broad River are shown along with roads and the towns of Newport and Parrotsv…

Frank Cheatham was a corps commander in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and this hand-drawn map of a portion of northeast Alabama from Gadsden up to Guntersville may have been used by him in late 1…