 | ▼▼▼ The Department Of Cute And Weird: Xydexx ▼▼▼ (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xydexx) wrote,
@ 2008-03-24 19:19:00 |
Treasure Hunting
I was doing my chores and finally putting away several boxes of books I had brought down from Hawthorne back when Mom moved, and happened to glance through Wonderous Westchester: Its History, Landmarks, and Special Events by Anita Inman Comstock. It has a small section on milestones along the Albany Post Road, including the precise locations of the ones I remember telling Rob Yasinsac about last year.
I was delighted to notice that Rob has since updated his milestones page and he had found one of the ones I'd pointed out, as well as quite a few others I'd never known about. As y'all know, once I start digging into history I am nigh unstoppable. I did a little research, and learned that most of the milestones were noted on an old 1789 atlas, A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, by Christopher Colles. Lo and behold, there happened to be a copy of it available online at David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection. (Wow... David Rumsey also has a presence in Second Life—how cool is that?)
Currently I'm busying myself with comparing the old 1789 route of Albany Post Road with the current maps and seeing what interesting things I can find. And even with a cursory glance at it, I'm finding a lot. Fascinating stuff. Perhaps I'll make use of my Wall before conbook time to organize this.
A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, by Christopher Colles, 1789
getting drunk on history
