A beautiful example of Finley's important 1827 map of Alabama.  Depicts the state with moderate detail in Finley's classic minimalist style.  Shows river ways, roads, canals, and some topographical features. Offers color coding at the county level.  Finley's map of Alabama is particularly interesting and important due to its portrayal of the rapidly changing American Indian situation in the eastern part of the state.  In 1827 a substantial part of northeastern Alabama was a confined territory assigned to the Upper Creek and Cherokee nations.  Finley's map details several contracting borders to this territory noting the Indian Boundary, the New Indian Boundary, and the New Cherokee Line.  Also notes numerous American Indian villages and missionary stations within the Upper Creek and Cherokee territories.  Just four years after this map was made the Creek and Cherokee would forcibly relocated westward in the infamous Trail of Tears.  This map is also of interest as it details a territorial dispute between Alabama and Georgia.  Early surveying errors attributed the same territory to both states.  Shortly before this map was made, the territorial dispute was settled on behalf of Georgia.    Title and scale in lower right quadrant. Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's  General Atlas .
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18507773" class="extiw" title="d:Q18507773">Anthony Finley</a>
</bdi>
1827 (undated)
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.geographicus.com/">Geographicus Rare Antique Maps</a>, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geographicus" title="Commons:Geographicus">cooperation project</a>.