64 Rare and Fascinating
Historical Maps of Michigan

This CD contains 64 rare antique maps of Michigan from the 1700s to the 1900s. They are historically significant and incredibly detailed.

Each map is in MrSid format. This format allows you to see the entire map or drill down for the smallest details. If you printed one of these maps at full size, it would be about 36"x36" or larger (way more than can fit on a computer screen) so you can imagine how much detail they all have. (MrSID software is included on the CD.)

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The table below shows the description and a small image of each map on this incredible history CD.

Map of Michigan showing the Toledo, Ann Arbor, & North Michigan Railway and connecting lines. . G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1886. SUMMARY Shows drainage, cities and towns, townships, counties, and the railroad lines in red. Includes descriptive text on traffic connections.

Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of South Bend of Lake Michigan. It will be seen at a glance, that the unbroken line of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and the only winter route for northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, will be by the Michigan Southern Railway, and south shore of Lake Erie. . Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, [1850] SUMMARY Outline map of the north-central United States showing the canals and the railroad network and naming the Michigan Central and the Michigan Southern Railway. John B. Jervis was chief engineer on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in 1831.

Railroad map of Michigan prepared for the commissioner of railroads. . G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1876, c1874. NOTES Scale 1:1,267,200. SUMMARY Shows drainage, cities and towns, and railroads in color.

Skeleton map, showing the position and connections of the Michigan Southern Rail Road (from Toledo to Chicago) with the several great rail road routes to the Atlantic seaboard and New York City via the south shore of Lake Erie. . Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885. CREATED/PUBLISHED N[ew] Y[ork], 1850. NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. SUMMARY Outline map of the northeastern United States showing railroads in operation, under construction, and under proposal. Chartered in 1846 and consolidated April 1855 with the Northern Indiana Railroad under the name Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad.

Official map of Michigan, railroad, township and sectional, prepared under the direction of the commissioner of railroads. . Cram & Stebbins. CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, 1885. NOTES Scale 1:633,600. SUMMARY Detailed state map including drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network. Census information, with miles of line by county, at left margin of map.

Railroads in Michigan, with steamboat routes on the Great Lakes. Drawn and engraved for Doggett's railroad guide & gazetteer. . Doggett, John, 1809-1852. CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1848] NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848. From Doggett's Railroad Guide (1848) SUMMARY Shows main line from Detroit to Kalamazoo and from Munroe to Hillsdale.

Calumet, Hecla & Red Jacket, Mich. : 1881 / [signed] H. Wellge, Milw. ; Beck & Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis. : J.J. Stoner, [1881] NOTES Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Port Huron, Sarnia & Gratiot, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1867 & Point Edwards, Lambton Co., Canada west. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1867] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view--showing about three miles square--of the central portion of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Calvert Lith Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Detroit [1889?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Used through the kindness of the Imperial Life Ins. Co."

A map showing the route of the proposed rail road from the Copper and Iron Mining District of Lake Superior to connect with rail roads built or being constructed in the state of Wisconsin as adopted by the citizens of Ontonagon and Marquette counties Mich. at public meetings held in November and December 1855; (subject to such changes of location of the road as a general survey of the line shall prove to be desirable.) . W. Endicott & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York, 1855] NOTES Scale not given. At left of map: "Facts and Figures." SUMMARY Outline map of eastern Wisconsin, and parts of Illinois and Michigan, showing major drainage, township lines, large cities, and the railroads.

East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867 / drawn & published by A. Ruger ; Chicago Lithographing Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago : Ruger, [1867] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Indexed for points of interest.

Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Niles, Berrien County, Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1866] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Grand Rapids, Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Jackson, Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Adrian, Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1866] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Birds-eye view of Muskegon, Michigan 1889, from Muskegon Lake looking east. E. S. Glover, sketch. Shober Carqueville Lith. Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, A. J. Little [1889] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Saint Johns, Clinton Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Muskegon, Michigan 1874. . [Ruger, A.] CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Lithographing Co. [1874] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Ionia, Ionia Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Saginaw City [Michigan 1867] Drawn from nature by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1867] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan 1867. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1867] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Bird's eye view of the city of Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] Chicago Lith. Co. [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Marshall, Calhoun Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Coldwater, Branch Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Lansing, Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1866] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Albion, Calhoun Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1868?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan. . Galbraith, Frank H. CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, 1897, c1898. NOTES Scale not given. SUMMARY One of eight large-scale pictorial maps of midwestern states showing routes and post offices of the Railway Mail Service. Designed by Chicago railway mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith to help employees of the Railway Mail Service quickly locate counties and post offices. The maps were rented for practicing or prospective workers who numbered over 6,000 and traveled over a million miles a year on the rails sorting mail. A printed title cartouche accompanied by a list of counties for each of the states by McEwen Map Company of Chicago is pasted on the maps. For published maps showing the routes of the mail service see entries 283 and 313.

Bird's eye view of Bay City, Portsmouth, Wenona & Salzburg, Bay Co., Michigan 1867. Drawn by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] Chicago Lithographing Co. [1867] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed to points of interest.

Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] E. S. Glover [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Hudson, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] E. S. Glover [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Kalamazoo, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Litho. Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner [1874] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Indexed for points of interest.

Bird's eye view of Saint Clair, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lith. Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] E. S. Glover [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Panoramic view of the city of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Michigan 1880. Beck & Pauli Lith. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner [1880] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Indexed for points of interest.

Panoramic view of the city of Jackson, Michigan 1881. [By] A. Ruger. Beck & Pauli Lith. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner [1881] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. "Looking north east." Indexed for points of interest.

Wyandotte, Michigan 1896. Drawn by T. M. Fowler. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Morrisville, Pa., T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer [1896] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes 2 views and index to points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Grand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Merchants Lithographing Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, E. S. Glover [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

Mills & manufacturing establishments of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Battle Creek [1869?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Shows buildings along the river. Includes illus. and advertisements.

Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Lithographing Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner [1874] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Proposed route for a rail road from Copper Harbor, to Fond Du Lac, Winnebego. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Clev[elan]d. O., 1853. NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. From Proceedings and Report of a Meeting held at Ontonagon, November 15, 1853, in Reference to a Rail Road from Lake Winnebago to Lake Superior. A. C. Davis, Secretary, D. S. Cash, Chairman. SUMMARY Outline map centered on Green Bay showing the area between Detroit, Mich. and Fond du Lac, Wis. Contemplated and proposed railroad routes are shown.

Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich. . CREATED/PUBLISHED n.p., 188-?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale.

Lake Superior's Queen City (Marquette, Mich.) 1897. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1897] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and view "Marquette in 1849."

Bird's eye view of Bessemer, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886. Beck & Pauli, litho. . Norris, Wellge & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee [1886] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

nton Harbor, Mich. 1889. . C.J. Pauli & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee [1889] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. "Looking north west." Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Port Huron, Mich. 1894. . Pauli, C. J. CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee [1894] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes index to points of interest and inset "Continuation of Elmwood Street, north."

Bird's-eye view of Kalamazoo / this drawing produced by the Benford-Bryan Co. Incorporated, artists. . Benford-Bryan Pub Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Denver, Colo. : Benford-Bryan Pub. Co., 1908 (Denver, Colo. : W.H. Kistler Staty. Co.) NOTES Oriented with north to the right. Includes ill.

Ironwood, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886. H. Wellge, sk. Beck & Pauli, litho. . Wellge, H. (Henry) CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee, Norris, Wellge & Co. [1886] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Panoramic view of Mt. Clemens 1881, Macomb Co., Mich. Beck & Pauli, lith. . Stoner, J. J. CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis. [1881] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. "Looking northwest." Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text.

Chapman's rail road map of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, & Wisconsin. . Chapman, Silas. CREATED/PUBLISHED Milwaukee, S. Chapman, 1859. NOTES Scale ca. 1:1,450,000. "Chas. Shober Lith. 109 Lake St. Chicago." SUMMARY Outline map showing the railroad network and stations along the rail lines.

Bird's eye view of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich. Drawn and published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Battle Creek [1870?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale.

Negaunee, Mich. 1871. Drawn by H. H. Bailey. C.H. Vogt Lith. . Bailey, H. H. (Howard Heston), 1836-1878. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Milwaukee?] print. by the Milwaukee Lith. & Engr. Co. [1871] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Indexed for points of interest.

International rail road guide of the Great Central Route. . Tunis, W. E. CREATED/PUBLISHED Niagara Falls, N.Y., [1855?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. SUMMARY Shows railroad lines in the north-central and northeastern United States connecting with the Michigan Central and New York Central Railroads.

Bird's eye view of Romeo 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co. . Ruger, A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago] E. S. Glover [1868] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Indexed for points of interest.

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on the river Ohio. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [London : s.n., 1754] NOTES Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially.

Bird's eye view of Kalamazoo, Mich. 1883. Drawn by H. Wellge & A. F. Poole. Beck & Pauli, lithographers. . Wellge, H. (Henry) CREATED/PUBLISHED Madison, Wis., J. J. Stoner, c1883. NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes illus. and index to points of interest.

Birds eye view of the city of Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co., Mich. 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, Chicago Lithographing Co. [1866] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Indexed for points of interest.

Map of the Milwaukee & Superior Rail Road and its connections. . Nesbitt (Geo. F.) & Company. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1857. NOTES Scale ca. 1:1,625,000. SUMMARY Map of Wisconsin and parts of Illinois and Michigan showing drainage, county boundaries, larger cities, and the railroad network. The main line is in red, and the Milwaukee and Chicago Railroad is in blue.

Colton's county & township rail road map of Ohio, Indiana, & Michigan, with parts of adjoining states & Canada; printed by Lang & Laing, 1859. . Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, Chicago, 1860, c1859. NOTES Scale 1:1,267,200. LC also has "New edition with steamboat landings," dated 1870.

Guide through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa; by J. Calvin Smith, engraved by S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith. . Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin) CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1844, c1840. NOTES Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1840. LC also has 1864 edition, by J. H. Colton. SUMMARY Detailed township map of the midwestern states showing drainage, cities and towns, canals, stage roads, and railroads.

Map showing the location of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway with its branches & connections through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan. . Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Land Dept. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Chicago, 1862] NOTES Scale 1:1,267,200. Includes a table of distances. SUMMARY Map of the midwestern states showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, and the completed, proposed, and under-construction railroads.

Map showing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its connections. . G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, 1871. NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. SUMMARY Advertising map covering Michigan and vicinity. Shows drainage, cities and towns, railroad land grant, and the railroad network emphasizing the main line. Information on bond sale by Winslow, Lanier & Co., N.Y., on the verso. Under construction by Continental Improvement Company, George W. Cass, President.

Map of the Great Central Route and its connections, the most central, attractive, direct and reliable thoroughfare between the eastern and western states. . Noble, C. E., fl. 1856. CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo, N.Y., c1856. NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,250,000. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856. At right of map: "Statistics of suspension bridge." Inset: [View of] Mammoth suspension bridge over Niagara River in view of the falls. SUMMARY Outline map of the north-central and northeastern states indicating larger cities, county boundaries, and railroad network emphasizing the Michigan Central Railroad and the Great Western Railway.

Lewis and Clark map, with annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewis, tracing showing the Mississippi, the Missouri for a short distance above Kansas, Lakes Michigan, Superior, and Winnipeg, and the country onwards to the Pacific.. King, N. (Nicholas), 1771-1812. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1803?]

This is a must have collection for any map history buff!

This CD is created in PC format using an HTML menu to navigate. To use this CD, you must either be using a PC or a Macintosh in PC emulation mode. Viewing the maps also requires installing a software program called MrSID which is included on the disk. This is a PC based program and will run on a Macintosh in PC emulation mode.