Hi List, You might have read in my post about Manaen B. Marvel that I saw a drawing from 1823 with James Marvel's house on the Laurel-Concord Road. What roads do you think that would be today? The tract Snow Hill is described as about 2 miles from the Broad Creek wading place. James Marvel is living directly on the road and on the edge of the tract called Snow Hill. So at first I thought it is probably today's Sycamore Road and then Firetower Road. But the drawing has the road at more of an upright angle which fits better with Discount Land Road leading to Firetower Road. The oldest road map with any detail I have is the Beers Atlas and I've been comparing that to the 1915 topo maps on Maptech and modern maps. William Marvel, brother of James, owned several farms and most of them have the Laurel-Concord Road in their description. Where is the old Laurel-Concord Road? Thanks for any and all help, Nanette
old rt. 13 laurel to blades> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:15:15 -0500> From: imnetz@aol.com> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LDR] Laurel-Concord Road> > > Hi List,> > You might have read in my post about Manaen B. Marvel that I saw a drawing from 1823 with James Marvel's house on the Laurel-Concord Road. What roads do you think that would be today? The tract Snow Hill is described as about 2 miles from the Broad Creek wading place. James Marvel is living directly on the road and on the edge of the tract called Snow Hill. So at first I thought it is probably today's Sycamore Road and then Firetower Road. But the drawing has the road at more of an upright angle which fits better with Discount Land Road leading to Firetower Road. The oldest road map with any detail I have is the Beers Atlas and I've been comparing that to the 1915 topo maps on Maptech and modern maps.> > William Marvel, brother of James, owned several farms and most of them have the Laurel-Concord Road in their description. > > Where is the old Laurel-Concord Road?> > Thanks for any and all help,> > Nanette> ***************************************> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ:> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009