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HISTORICAL MAPS OF NEW JERSEY

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Pleistocene Ice Movement, Northern NJ Visscher's Map of New Belgium and New England
Svydt Rivier 1639? | source: Library of Congress
East and West New Jarsey 1706 | source: Library of Congress
Pa, Nova Jersey et Nova York 1748  | source: Library of Congress Elizabethtown 1750
Barnegat to Cape May 1770   | source: Library of Congress
NJ, NY, part of PA Quebec 1775 | source: Library of Congress  
New Jersey 1776   | source: Library of Congress New Jersey 1777 | source:  Library of Congress
Delaware Bay 1778 | source: Library of Congress Trenton New Brunswick Turnpike | source: Library of Congress
New Jersey_1780 | source:  Library of Congress New Jersey boundary lines 1784
New Jersey 1795 | source:  Library of Congress New Jersey 1797 | source:  Rumsey Maps
New Jersey 1811 | source:  Rumsey Maps New Jersey 1812 | source:  Rumsey Maps
New Jersey 1826 New Jersey 1834
New Jersey 1835 New Jersey 1836 | source:  Rumsey Maps
New Jersey 1856 New Jersey 1860 (from the Chester Library) | About this map
40 miles around New York 1867| source:   Library of Congress Coal of Pennsylvania to NY via Perth Amboy 1868 | source:Library of Congress
New Jersey 1872 outline map for schools NJ Colton 1878
New Jersey 1878 with terminal moraine NJ Iron Ore & Limestone Districts 1878 West Half | East Half
North New Jersey topographic 1882 | source:   Library of Congress  
NJ/NY Boundary1887 in the Raritan Bay New Jersey 1889 Geologic Map North Half | South Half
New Jersey 1890 New Jersey 1892 with watersheds
Glacial Striae on the Palisade Ridge 1893
New Jersey 1900 with forests New Jersey 1906 North Half | South Half
New Jersey 1909 North Half | South Half New Jersey Inland Waterways 1911
New Jersey 1913 North Half | South Half New Jersey 1918 North half | South Half
New Jersey Soils Maps 1919 courtesy of Dr. John Tedrow New Jersey Electric companies 1922
New Jersey Electric Companies 1928 New Jersey Inland Waterways 1928
New Jersey Civil Divisions 1940 New Jersey 1939 Geologic Map North Half | South Half
New Jersey Geology 1940 New Jersey Turnpike Map ca 1950 (back of map)
NJ Postal Routes 1913 New Jersey Postal Routes 1953
New Jersey Land Types 1954 (text on back) New Jersey Invites You - tourist sites and prisons 1955 (?). Note by Rob Fini questioned the 1955 date emailing, "at Lakehurst the map notes the air station is the "home of the Macon;" the USS Macon was in service from 1933 to 1935, wrecking in the Pacific ocean on February 12".
New Jersey Electric companies 1959 New Jersey High Schools 1960s
Atlantic City Expressway || (back of map) 1970s Port Authority District 1979


REVOLUTIONARY WAR MAPS
 HISTORICAL RAILROAD MAPS

HISTORICAL FOREST MAPS (also mines & quarries)
 HISTORICAL STATE FOREST & STATE PARK MAPS

MORRIS CANAL MAP 1827
 DELAWARE & RARITAN CANAL MAP CANAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY

Historical Streams of the Lower Raritan Watershed Project

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NEW JERSEY'S COUNTIES


ATLANTIC BERGEN BURLINGTON CAMDEN CAPE MAY CUMBERLAND ESSEX
GLOUCESTER HUDSON HUNTERDON MERCER MIDDLESEX MONMOUTH MORRIS
OCEAN PASSAIC
SALEM SOMERSET SUSSEX UNION WARREN  


THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF RUTGERS/NEW BRUNSWICK
campus map images courtesy of Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives

Douglass and Agricultural Colleges 1930
Douglass Campus (date unknown)
 Douglass Campus 1962
University Heights 1947
Colllege Ave & University Heights 1951
 University Heights 1963
Busch Campus 1973
Kilmer Campus 1973
Camp Kilmer Pamphlet
 Kilmer Map 1 Kilmer Map 2
CAC campus ca. 1910
CAC campus ca. 1911
CAC campus ca. 1930
CAC campuses pictorial.jpg
Rutgers University ca. 1939
 CAC ca. 1939 CAC ca. 1939 rev 1950 CAC ca. 1939 rev 1950 text
New Brunswick & RU Sites
 Raritan River


1872 ATLAS OF NEW JERSEY by F.W. Beers
from Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGY
ATLANTIC CITY / CAMDEN CITY / MOUNT HOLLY / WOODBURY
BAYONNE / GREENSVILLE
BELLEVILLE / MONTCLAIR
BELVIDERE / HACKETTSTOWN / NEWTON / PHILLIPSBURG / WASHINGTON VILLAGE
BERGEN / PASSAIC COUNTIES
BEVERLY / BURLINGTON CITY / GLOUSTER CITY / HADDONFIELD / MAY'S LANDING
BLOOMFIELD / LAMBERTVILLE / DOVER BOONTON / MORRISTOWN
BORDENTOWN / BRICKSBURG / MADISON / MANCHESTER / TOM'S RIVER
BRIDGETON / CAPE MAY CITY / MILLVILLE / SALEM / VINELAND
BURLINGTON COUNTY NORTH
BURLINGTON COUNTY SOUTH
CAMDEN / GLOUCESTER COUNTIES
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
ELIZABETH
ENGLEWOOD
FREEHOLD / RAWAY
HOBOKEN / JERSEY CITY / WEEHAWKEN / UNION
HUDSON / UNION / ESSEX COUNTIES
HUNTERDON / SOMERSET COUNTIES
KEYPORT / MATAWAN / PERTH AMBOY
LONGBRANCH and vicinity
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
MERCER COUNTY
MORRIS COUNTY
NEWARK
OCEAN COUNTY
ORANGES
PATERSON
PLAINFIELD / SOMMERVILLE / FLEMMINGTON
SALEM COUNTY
SUSSEX COUNTY
TRENTON
WARREN COUNTY

 

HISTORICAL MAP LINKS TO OTHER SITES


Rutgers Special Collections Library of Congress David Rumsey Map Collections
Images of Early Maps Historical USGS Maps NOAA Historical Maps & Charts
1895 Rand McNally atlas map of NJ index to data on the 1895 map Perry Castenada Map Collection
Historical European Maps Ancient World Mapping Center NJ Railroad Retrospective
19th Century Poverty Maps of London Panorama of the Thames project  
Genealogy/Local History (NJ State Library) NJ Resources (NJ State Library) Digital Jerseyana collection (NJ State Library)

Examples of cartography by John E. Brush


Questions related to this webpage should be directed to Mike Siegel via email: misiegel@rutgers.edu

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