US History by Region

(Click a region to view)

U.S. Mapping Sites:

• Hargrett Library, University of Georgia, Rare Map Collection
  (over 800 maps indexed by era, topic, and location, sixteenth century to twentieth century)
• Sanborn Maps
  (provides access to more than 660,000 Digital Sanborn Maps, produced between 1867 and 1970)
• Survey of the Coast

(Thomas Jefferson created the Survey of the Coast in 1807 to survey the U.S. coast line, and the National Ocean Service has expanded this, while this site includes 500,000 coast aerial photographs dating from the 1930s)

• Terra Server
  (Locate satellite and topographic maps and aerial photographs of any place in the U.S.)

   

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