Map showing the line of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad, and also the chief agricultural and mineral districts of the state of Alabama – Historic Map Reproduction
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This antique map of Map showing the line of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad, and also the chief agricultural and mineral districts of the state of Alabama brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Map showing the line of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad, and also the chief agricultural and mineral districts of the state of Alabama
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Few maps from 1867 pair a railway route with a state's resources as directly as this one does. It traces the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad while marking Alabama's farming regions and mineral deposits, so it reads as both a transportation plan and an economic survey. The years just after the Civil War were a time when Southern rail lines were being rebuilt or reorganized, and promoters used maps like this to show investors which towns and resources a line could reach. Its attention to the state's coal and iron areas is worth noting, since those deposits would later drive much of Alabama's industrial growth.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Original scan | 5,914 × 6,305 px · prints to 20 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | Map showing the line of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad, and also the chief agricultural and mineral districts of the state of Alabama. 1867 |
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