Staten Island, on the 1860 map of New Jersey.

Staten Island, on the 1860 map of New Jersey.

Staten Island, New York

1860 Map of New Jersey

This section of an 1860 map of New Jersey depicts what Staten Island was like at the onset of the Civil War. It comes from a large painted canvas wall map entitled "Topographical Map of the State of New Jersey" and is part of the digital collections of the Chester, New Jersey Public Library.

New Jersey State Geological Survey

U.S. Coast Survey

Hopkins. G. Morgan. Civil Engineer

Geological Survey of New Jersey

H.G. Bond Publishers, Philadelphia

1860

Chester New Jersey Public Library
https://localhistory.chesterlib.org/about-our-1860-new-jersey-topographical-wall-map/

https://librarychesternj.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1860njtopomapweb.jpg

Rutgers University
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html

Chester, New Jersey Public Library

color printed canvas

English

still image

Topographical Map of the State of New Jersey Together with the Vicinities of New York and Philadelphia, and with Most of the State of Delaware from the State Geological Survey and the U.S. Coast Survey, and from Surveys by G. Morgan Hopkins, Civil Engineer

1860

printed map

unknown