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One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Tennessee
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the sixteenth state and the last to be admitted during the eighteenth century. This 1817 wall map by Samuel Lewis is one of the earliest following statehood created soon after the very first printed map of Tennessee appeared in Mathew Carey's 1795 American Atlas, the first atlas of the United States published in the United States. This map includes county and town boundaries, road networks in the state, mountain ranges, and the state's namesake -- the Tinnasi River -- named for an Indian village. |