Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R A bit of surface loss

A bit of surface loss here and there - shot under magnification

and while it's possible there are a few of the smallest sized (triangular) blocks missing

This is a wonderful copy and feels like quite a special thing to hold in your hands

evoking all the romanticism of working through the night by candlelight--and with that great looping line among the ink bottles and pen nib seemingly added just for flourish

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R A bit of surface lossI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with big red and green compass rose star with pointing arrows and feathers, excellent inked handwriting, hand pointing to the corner of Lightwood Knot Road, and long hatched railroad, too! As detailed on reverse, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Harvey F. Waller in 1896, showing a 24