Post routes map of southern Indiana

Description:	A hand-drawn, vellum map of southernmost part of Indiana showing different roads through several counties and cities during the 1840s or so. The map includes the southern and eastern boundaries of the state, as well as the Ohio, Wabash, and White rivers, and the bounds of Posey, Vanderburgh, Gibson, Pike, Warrick, Dubois, Spencer, Perry, Orange, Crawford, and Harrison counties. The types of roads on the map are four horse coach routes, two horse and horse, indicating the kinds of transportation post riders and drivers could use to transport the mail. The map is believed to have belonged to Elisha Embree, a judge of the Dubois County Circuit Court (1835-1845), who was later elected as a U.S. Congressman and served as a member of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads during 1847-1849.
Origin:	circa 1845
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll38/id/0
Collection:	Highlights of the ISL Manuscripts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Indiana, United States
Subjects:	maps post roads transportation Frontier and pioneer life Dubois County (Ind.) Posey County (Ind.) Vanderburgh County (Ind.) Gibson County (Ind.) Pike County (Ind.) Warrick County (Ind.) Spencer County (Ind.) Orange County (Ind.) Perry County (Ind.) Crawford County (Ind.) Harrison County (Ind.) Knox County (Ind.) Daviess County (Ind.) Martin County (Ind.) Washington County (Ind.) White River (Ind. : River) Wabash River Ohio River Vincennes (Ind.) Corydon (Ind.) Evansville (Ind.)

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