Sheafer, Peter Wenrick (sold)
Peter Wenrick Sheafer (March 31, 1819 - March 26, 1891) created several celebrated maps of Pennsylvania. He was a civil and mining engineer from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Sheafer was born in Dauphin County, PA and studied engineering in New York. In 1838 he assisted in making the first geological survey of Pennsylvania, trading the line of what was known as 'Second Mountain, the basin of the southern Anthracite coal fields. He settled in Pottsville, PA, center of the mining industry, in 1848. With state support, he continued his survey work in 1849 - publishing, with Robert P. Smith, an important large-scale map of the Anthracite Fields. His mapmaking career included a 1855 Map of Schuykill County, Pennsylvania. He also published the first version of his Official Coal, Iron, Railroad and Canal Map of Pennsylvania and C. in 1863, which was so popular that it was included in the state document Reports of the Several Railroad Companies of Pennsylvania Communicated by the Auditor General of the Legislature. Versions of this map were published until around 1870 in the Auditor General’s reports. Sheafer’s Historical Map of Pennsylvania was published in 1873 and subsequently republished by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1875 with a 28 page booklet of information. Sheafer died at a heath spa in Brown's Mills, New Jersey, not far from Atlantic City.
Rare Map Capturing Pennsylvania's 19th Century Industrial Boom
Railroad, canal, iron and coal map of Pennsylvania, etc.
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This is an 1869 Peter Wenrick Sheafer map of Pennsylvania, produced to accompany the 1868 Auditor General’s report on the Railroad and Canal companies of Pennsylvania. The map embraces all of New Jersey, most of New York, eastern Ohio and most of northern Maryland, though the industrial and mining information is restricted to the State of Pennsylvania. The presentation of that state is data-rich, showing abundant oil and coal resources and the burgeoning industrial machine linking these to the cities. Iron mills, furnaces, forges, iron mines and steel works are marked on the map. Canals and railroads (both complete and proposed) are shown and easily distinguished from one another. Coal, limestone and oil-producing areas are shown using shading to indicate density. Particularly important oil and coal fields are also named on the map, distinguishing anthracite coal fields from bituminous coal, for example. The Venango fields, site of the mid 1850-s oil boom, are shown. (more details)
Important Sheafer historical map of Pennsylvania depicting the growth of the state.
An Historical Map of Pennsylvania showing the Indian Names of Streams and Villages, and Paths of Travel; the Sites of Old Forts and Battle Fields; the Successive Purchases from the Indians; and the Names and Dates of Counties and County Towns, with Tables of Forts and Proprietary Manors.
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This is an 1875 P. W. Sheafer map of Pennsylvania. The map depicts the state of Pennsylvania from the border with Ohio to New Jersey, Long Island, and the Atlantic Ocean and from the border with New York to Maryland and West Virginia. Historically significant, a ... (more details)