If you looked at the page on my site at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~davidca/south-co.jpg , it is only a part of the map which is Railroads and Counties of Illinois 1854. (the whole state). The map is from the Library of Congress. I like it because it has the Section grid and on the whole map there are references to the section number system. It was from that map that I realized that the extreme east edge of White Co and just a tad of Gallatin are ranged from the 2nd PM rather than the 3rd. You can view the whole map at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection and you can Zoom in and out. It can be down loaded. It is very big - 28 meg. and you have to have the Mr. Sid viewer, but it was well worth the trouble to me. The Mr. Sid viewer is free and is mentioned at the bottom of the L. of C. page. The way Mr. Sid works, when you ZOOM in on something it re-focus the image. It's great. >From Mr. Sid, you can export a part of the map to a tif image, then in other programs, change it to a bmp, paint on it, and save it as a jpg. I sent a link to the map but it failed because of the way they use the cgi/bin, so here is how to find the map. Go to Library of Congress American Memory at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html Click on Search. Click on Maps in the Limit search area to the right. Change "match any of these words" to "match all of these words" Type with just a space between railroad illinois county Click on search. Item #7 should be the 1854 railroad map. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 9:13 AM Subject: Re: [ILGALLAT] Map of Illinois > Dave, > What was the date of the map? Is it availabel to be purchased? Thanks for > maling it available on the site. > Bill Baker > >