North Carolina counties, 1840
About this map
Map by L. Polk Denmark from David Leroy Corbitt, The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943 (Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1950). Used by permission.
- Date created
- 1950
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- This map copyright ©1950. All Rights Reserved
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- North Carolina in the New Nation: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the early national period (1790–1836). Topics include the development of state government and political parties, agriculture, the Great Revival, education, the gold rush, the growth of slavery, Cherokee Removal, and battles over internal improvements and reform. (Page 11.4)
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