Wilmington Ohio Map 1859

From "A County Seat Calendar 1985" page 7

Map Inscription on Calendar:  The world according to surveyor Jeff Hildebrant, 1859


February 10, 1811 - After seven months of indecision, the first commissioners change the name of the town to Wilmington.  They are looking for a name that is not already used in Ohio.  In June [1810], they name it Clinton.  In August, it is called Armenia.  By October, is is Mt. Pleasant.  The judge allows one more change:  Wilmington it is, although no one is certain why.  

According to Ohio History Central: "Many of the town's early residents were from North Carolina, and they named their new community, which was established in 1810, after Wilmington, North Carolina. The community grew quickly, attaining 1,500 residents by 1840. In 1846, the community had five churches, one high school, one newspaper, and nineteen retail stores."

Old Ohio Map

Here's a map I copied from a blog called Cartophilia: Maps and Map Memorabilia by Cartophiliac showing the original land grants that made up the state. The map was part of a discussion about a new book called How the States got their Shape by Mark Stein which I currently have on reserve at the library. Hope to have it by next weekend to share with Dad!

Missing New Vienna

If New Vienna were marked on this map it would be about in the middle of the photo. Of course, Dick's Sporting Goods (located at the "star" on the map) is not in New Vienna, but rather nearer Beaver Creek it appears. Makes the west branch of the East fork of the Little Miami River look like a promiment waterway. Canoing anyone?

Sorta interesting site

Flashearth makes it easier to compare web map searches. One site does a pretty good job of New Vienna - another doesn't.

Oregon map quilt

There was a link to the Oregon map in the comment field of the post to which Catherine linked below. I can't imagine putting the work in that this quilt obviously required.

Ohio Quilt Map

In honor of our home state, here's a picture of a quilt that is on display in a store called Sew In Style: School of Sewing in Beavercreek OH. I found it on a blog called

Cartophilia: Maps and Map Memorabilia

where it was seen by someone who belongs to a boardgame playing group that meets at the Sew in Style. Monopoly anyone?

World as Cloverleaf strange map

From Strange Maps Blog 030807
Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) knew the world didn’t really look like this. There are enough maps in his works (such as Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae) to indicate he knew the continents had an irregular, and not a symbolic shape.
This particular map is a tribute to Buntings hometown Hanover, as the text above the map indicates: Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblatt welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen (‘The Whole World in a Cloverleaf, Which Is The Coat of Arms of Hannover, My Dear Fatherland’).
The map shows a world divided into three parts (Europe, Asia and Africa), connected at a single central point: Jerusalem. This is essentially still the same symbolic map of the world as the one first devised by Saint Isidore in the seventh century. Isidore’s ’T and O’-shaped map, itself inspired by Scripture, influenced Christian European mapmaking up until the age of discovery.
That age would be the one Bunting grew up in. He and his contemporaries were among the first generations of Europeans to know Isidore was wrong – but it’s almost impossible to resist imagining how this centuries-old archetype of a map took a while to be erased out of the common memory of cartographers.
Bunting’s map is nice in that it combine symbolism with realism: in the bottom left corner a piece of land is named America. Strange is that a similar detached piece of territory at the top of the map is labelled Denmark and Sweden. Bunting must have known that Denmark was contiguous with the European Continent…
Some named countries and places (not all are easily readable) on the three continents are, left to right:
Europe: Hispanien (Spain), Mailand (Milan), Welschland (Welsh? Walloon? Country), Frankreich (France), Lothringen (Lorraine), Roma (Rome), Deutschland (Germany), Ungarn (Hungary), Polen (Poland), Preussen (Prussia), Griechenland (Greece), Türken (Turks)
Africa: Lybia, Egypten, Morenland (Land of the Moors), Königreich Melinde (Kingdom of Melinde) , Caput Bonae Spes (Cape of Good Hope)
Asia: Siria, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Chaldea, Persia, India

Geologic Map of Ohio

Read on a blog called "The Map Room A Weblog about Maps" that this map of Ohio is available for $15. I do like the colors but the 72" by 48" map of the world we recently hung on our wall is enough of a map purchase for this year. Dad, I am impressed by your commenting! Good job!

Maproom link