Another "lifted" article from Va Roots "In my searches I ran across some great sites for historical maps. Your first stop should definitely be the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at this address (it's a long one; you may have to cut'n'paste to get it into your browser window): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_m ain.html PCL itself has numerous historical maps from all over the world dating back centuries in some cases. They also have a list of links to other maps, historical and contemporary. Here's a link to a 1927 Fredericksburg map: http://www.crrl.org/services/adult/virginiana/maps/map1.htm This one is the best: an enormous, highly detailed map of the state from 1895. It's also about 1.5 megabytes and so detailed it crashed my printer, but you can't have everything... http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/1895/va_1895.jpg If you really want to go back a ways, here's a 1612 map of "Virginia Discovered": http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/nnj/virginia.jpg The U of Georgia also has a bunch of historical maps online, although of course most of them deal with Georgia and its cities. There are some early colonial maps of Virginia, though. You can find the collection at this address: http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html Carol Pridgen Martoccia 903 East Fifth St. Greenville, NC 27858 PRIDGEN Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 PRIDGEN Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl List manager for the Pridgen Family and for Wilson County, NC (NCWilson)