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GEORGIA COUNTY MAPS
OTHER GEORGIA MAPS Some excellent Georgia map Web sites are now available for researchers. Some of what's available are historic maps, while others are modern Georgia D.O.T. county road maps. The D.O.T. maps often show the location and names of churches, cemeteries, creeks, etc. - all items of interest to genealogists. There's even a Web site with 20th century aerial photographs. You may find some, if not all of these links useful for your Georgia research. For viewing and using some of the maps obtained via the following links, you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. With that PDF reader you can scroll around and zoom in and out to and from portions of the maps to closely examine features and place names. Downloading the Adobe Reader is FREE.
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Georgia The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. The collection provides a graphic resource upon which researchers can draw in re-discovering the minds and movements of early American explorers, revolutionary statesmen, cultural figures and politicians represented by the library's book and manuscript collections. Georgia County D.O.T. Maps Links to rotating animated maps showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlaid with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries and State Department of Transportation Maps.
Georgia Historical County Maps This Web site provides historical atlases for Georgia Counties from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia. This Web site was developed to allow anyone interested in Georgia history or genealogy to trace the origin and evolution of each county in the state. To accomplish this, individual counties were scanned from a variety of 19th and 20th century maps -- many originally contained in U.S. atlases of the time. The Morse Web site provides beautifully colored maps for some states, including Georgia and Florida, published originally by Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff Street, New York ... maps by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese. This was the first Cerographic Atlas of the United States. This atlas was originally issued in three parts starting in 1842 and ending in 1845. The state maps on this site are from the 1845 edition, which is a reissue of the 1842 - 1845 edition with some changes to the maps and with the addition of some color. The aerial photographs available via this UGA Web site are 20th century photographs for all Georgia counties. These aerial photographs are very useful when looking for 'lost' cemeteries and for old roads, farms or communities that no longer exist. You can sometimes see the old cemeteries in open fields, that have since been covered up by farms or plantations of planted pines from these 1950s and 1960s images.
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.... And Thus History Began
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