For local maps, you can always try the USGS's site at: mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/ You should probably read their user's guide first, or try a query, then click on the reply, scroll down the result page to the map choices (I usually use Show Feature Location.) Click on that, e.g., and wait for two maps - one of the US orienting you to the place you searched on, and another very local map, both showing the site searched for by a red dot. You can search on a single feature such as a town or a historic place, or you can leave Feature Name blank and search on a feature type, such as all cemeteries in the county, or all streams, etc. It's fun to go through the results, map by map. If you belong to AAA, you can probably get a good detailed WV road map from them. State tourist depts. or highway depts. also often produce good maps, at least for traveling. You can read about some historic sites in the various counties at the following site: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wv/state.html There's probably much more on the Internet or in the Archives of the relevant counties' Rootsweb lists. --- Ann HeInz <agatha1@flash.net> wrote: > I am trying to find information, history of > north east part of Hampshire co. what > communities, churches,cemeteries, any good maps > to see locales,etc.(I need visuals!). Time > frame is 1850. What employment might be for > itinerate laborers not buying land. .. > railroad, rock or mineral mines,etc.? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus