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This folding road map of Texas from Five Star Maps includes major arterial inset maps of Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Big Bend Nat'l Park, Brazosport Area, Bryan-College Station, Beaumont-Orange-Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Del Rio, El Paso, Houston, Laredo, Longview-Marshall, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Lubbock, Midland-Odessa, San Angelo, San Antonio, Texarkana, Tyler, Victoria, Waco and Wichita Falls. It features points of interest, a mileage chart, state parks guide, Historical Route 66 and a complete index.
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Christopher Colles produced the first United States road maps in 1789. His atlas showed roads connecting a few cities, including Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and was modeled after the English road guides of the 18th century. In 1796 Abraham Bradley made a large map of the United States showing the roads of the new nation (Pennsylvania detail). This map, and its subsequent derivatives, became the official map of the US Post Office for planning mail deliveries; it is reproduced in Ristow and ... Schwartz & Ehrenberg. In 1802 T. W. Jones and S. S. Moore produced a road guide similar to Colles called The Traveller's Directory, or A Pocket Companion 1802, published by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia.
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The General Highway Maps are no longer updated and they will be replaced by the new County Road Series. The State Primary Road System maps are available for each county now, but they contain less detail. See the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's web site for more information.
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Maps dated 1916 or earlier contain only publisher route numbers or road names. Maps dated 1917 to 1926 usually contain trail markings. Maps dated 1925-26 contain trail markings and/or old state route numbers. Maps dated 1926-28 may contain both old state and modern US route numbers on major roads. From 1928 on modern route numbers appear on all road maps.
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Road maps show where roads, highways, routes, etc. are. The more a user zooms in on a map the more detailed the map is as to local roads, routes, etc.. Below is a map of major interstate highways in the United States.
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The Business Atlas, containing maps and data pertinent to business planning, was first published in 1876. The atlas is still updated today, now titled the Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide. The Trade Book department was established in 1877, publishing such titles as The Locust Plague in the United States. Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography. Also in 1894, the company opened an office in New York City headed by Caleb S. Hammond, who later started his own map company.
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