An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian Frontier, shewing … the Roads and Indian Paths (Henry Mouzon and others…
Henry Mouzon’s map of the two Carolinas and their Indian frontier: the roads and Indian paths, the Catawba Nation’s 144,000 acres, the Cherokee Lower Towns, the trading path to the Creeks, and the townships and parishes of the settled country.
Source
| Map | [An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontier, shewing in a distinct manner all the mounta]ins, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; with the roads and Indian paths; as well as the boundary or provincial lines, the several |
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| Author | Henry Mouzon and others, 1775 |
| Archive | Library of Congress |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1775 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 29 km (RMS 6.2 km at 31 control points). Placed by hand in a map-queue session and approved by a person. If something sits in the wrong place, members can fix it with Fix placement on the map. |
| Method | Placed by hand: a smoothing thin-plate spline through 31 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (5.3 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 4030; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (21.5 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (5.1 MB)
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Changelog
- 1.0.1 (2026-10-06): Fix: place names re-placed where the map draws them (they had been set by an approximation of the warp: median 5.5 km, up to 14 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 31 places. From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Library of Congress
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
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