Ely, William Watson
William Watson Ely (April 30, 1812 - March 27, 1879) was a Rochester, New York physician, wilderness enthusiast, and hobbyist mapmaker. Ely was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, and studied medicine at Yale, graduating in 1834. He married shortly afterward and established a medical practice at Manlius, Onondaga County, New York. He relocated his practice to the larger city of Rochester in 1839, where he remained for the remainder of his days. Despite his success as a doctor, Ely is best remembered for his remarkable mapping of the Adirondacks, completed between 1860 and 1866. His meticulous work produced the first accurate map of the Adirondacks and was the definitive map of that region for some 20 years. Ely died in Rochester of heart disease in 1879.
First and most important map of the Adirondacks.
Map of the New York Wilderness.
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A rare 1869 edition of William Watson Ely's map of New York's Adirondack Mountains - the first large-scale map of the Adirondacks based on first-hand reconnaissance and survey work. (more details)
Updated version of the best map of the Gilded Age Adirondacks.
Colton's Map of the New York Wilderness and the Adirondacks.
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This is Colton's 1894 updated edition of William Watson Ely's map of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Coverage extends from Saint Lawrence, Franklin, and Clinton counties in the north, to parts of Oneida and Saratoga counties in the south. An inset map in the upper left marks the location of the Adirondacks in relation to the rest of New York State, and New England as a whole. Colton's updates to Ely's map were supplied at least in part by Edwin R. Wallace, who included the map in his Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks, which from its first printings in the 1875 would be the essential guidebook for travelers in the wilderness of northern New York. The present example contains further updates to 1894, some quite specific to the famous Adirondack Great Camps. (more details)