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 This beautiful wall map of Essex County Massachusetts in 1856 is an incredibly detailed street map. H.F. Walling produced gorgeous maps. This map is no exception. Here's what you'll find when you purchase the Essex County Map 1856 :  Thousands of homeowner names 36 towns 35 villages 12 business directories 4 pictures 1 miniature geological map of Essex County!  Here's a small sampling of some of the above items.  This is one tiny portion of one tiny village (Ipswich)--and there are 34 more villages like this, plus 36 towns. That adds up to a LOT of names on one county map! The Haverhill business directory includes 3 restaurants. Who needs a phone app when you have a Walling map? The geological map was made by the well-known geologist, Edward Hitchcock.Wikipedia tells us that "Randy Moore described Hitchcock as 'America's leading advocate of catastrophism-based gap creationism.'" No, we here at www.oldmaps.com have no idea what that means. We do know ...

 If you love railroads, Milwaukee in 1858 would have been heaven to you. Here you see a turntable for the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad. Turntables allowed trains to reverse direction.   These sidings were spitting distance from at least three iron works: Globe Iron Works, Bay State Foundry, and the Iron Railing Manufactory. This larger view showing the Menomonee Station gives us a hint of just how important the railroads were to a thriving Milwaukee City. But life in Milwaukee wasn't all work. This trotting horse race course was owned by a few of Milwaukee's wealthy citizens. The location was also a former Civil War encampment. If you'd a like a closer look at this beautiful map Milwaukee City, take at look here.   This title block is as neat and clean as the superb Milwaukee County map This whole county map is available at www.old-map.com