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Digital Image: 1867 Walton Map of the Dismal Swamp Canal: Virginia, North Carolina
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Dismal Swamp Canal Connecting Chesapeake Bay with Currituck, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Their Tributary Streams.
1867 (dated) 22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm) 1 : 595000
1867 (dated) 22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm) 1 : 595000
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Cartographer S
David Smith Walton (May 2, 1816 - May 9, 1889) was an American civil engineer active in the mid to late 19th century. Walton was born in Otsego County, New York. He worked as a civil engineer on the Erie Canal until 1853, when he relocated to Portsmouth, Virginia. He was commissioned as a major in 1856 to command volunteer militia organization in Norfolk County, the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regimental Virginia Volunteers. As a volunteer regiment, officers were elected, and Walton was twice elected, first as Lt. Colonel, then ad Colonel. He stepped down from this post in 1858 to resume engineering work. During American Civil War (1861 - 1865), he served the Confederate cause. He was assigned to construct a defensive battery along Hospital Point, Portsmouth. After the war, he was hired by the Dismal Swamp Canal Company to evaluation the condition of the canal and consult on improvements. More by this mapmaker...
Hosford and Sons (fl. c. 1851 - 1872), also operating as 'Hosford and Ketcham', was a stationer, lithographing, and printing concern based in New York City in the mid-late 19th century. They specialized in bank notes, stock certificates, business forms, and other official stationary. The firm consisted of Frederick J. Hosford (1811 - 1889) and Charles F. Ketcham (1831 - January 21, 1900). Later F. J. Hosford's sons, Henry Hosford (1839 - ????), and James Spencer Hosford (1837 - October 20, 1922), joined the firm. The partner firms operated out of 57 and 59 William Street. Ketcham pull out of the operation sometime around 1870, and started his own firm at 27-29 Nassau Street. The Hosford Brothers relocated to 56 Cedar Street, where they continued to operate as Hosford and Sons. In the 1880s, J. S. Hosford moved upstate to become a gentleman farmer. Learn More...
References
OCLC 29617311. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, #Cm912.02 1867w.