An attractive hand colored 1854 U.S. Coast Survey triangulation chart or map of Savannah Georgia and the Savannah River.  Shows the progress of the survey work in this area by date annotated sections.  Shows navigation marks such as Fort Jackson, Tybee Lighthouse, Manigault’s Mill and even the Steam Saw Mill.  Details the grid layout of Savannah city. The hand color work on this beautiful map is exceptionally well done.   This map was compiled under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States and one of the most influential American cartographers of the 19th century.
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1854 (dated)
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