thanks Susan for all your hard work scanning things in. these maps are very interesting and informative I will be spending a lot of time looking at them since my family goes back to the 1600's in Newport. Mary Oakley Tucker researching: Barker,Oakley,McCarthy,Monteith,Hussey,Melville,Sherman,Hazard,and many more ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan W Pieroth" <pieroth@ix.netcom.com> To: <RINEWPOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:54 PM Subject: [RINEWPOR] Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth, 1893 Maps > I have completed the scans and web pages for the 1893 atlas of Newport > by L. J. Richards & Co. These maps provide the detail that was not > included for the city on the Beers 1870 maps (see > http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/maps ). > > The main portion of the atlas is comprised of plates for the city of > Newport. There is a street index for these. There is also a large map of > the Island of Rhode Island (also known as Aquidneck) on which the > property owners in Middletown and Portsmouth are noted. > > Although the scans are all done at the same resolution, the scale of the > maps is not consistent from plate to plate, so you will not be able to > paste sections together. > > These are configured for viewing on your computer. If the image fits the > screen in Internet Explorer, click on the image and then click on the > square icon in the lower right corner to expand it to full size. For > printing, save and use an imaging program. > > Happy Hunting http://www.rootsweb.com/~rinewpor/maps/ > > Susan > > > > > ==== RINEWPOR Mailing List ==== > Search the archived RINEWPOR messages at > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=RINEWPOR > Advertisements are added below against the wishes of this list manager > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >