Janson-La Palme Collection--Map of part of Saint Mary's County Maryland

Archive

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Janson-La Palme Collection--Map of part of Saint Mary's County Maryland

Entry/Object ID

2012.007.0041

Scope and Content

This item moved to SMCHS Research Library 06/25/2026. Cataloged as MAP 252. 4 sheets ; 35 3/4" x 23 1/2" Bayly Janson-La Palme worked with Lois Green Carr on economic data about colonial Maryland. Ms. Janson-La Palme then did her own work on economic data about Saint Mary's County from 1790-1870. She relied on census data, assessment records, estate inventories, etc. Her dissertation was based on this material, although the analysis in the dissertation only went up through 1840. The voluminous handwritten data was later transcribed onto 5 1/4" floppy disks using PC WRITE. That data was run on the mainframe computer at the University of Maryland. The disks, spread sheets, and other printouts are at the Hall of Records of the Maryland Archives. This is a copy of four sheets of a map of St. Mary's County from Point Lookout to Cedar Point on the Bay and around the corner in the Patuxent River to Town Creek. There is a small amount of map on the Potomac side from St. George's Island to Piney Point. If there were a large enough table, these sheets could fit together. The topography is rendered in an artistic fashion; this was before the days of USGS quadrangles. The area was surveyed under the direction of James Kearney and the sheet with the title was signed by him. There is a handwritten group of tide and weather data for September and October of 1823. The names of several property holders are in place on the land and at least one schoolhouse is identified. Text of stamp on verso: "NARA Record Group 77 Civil Works Map Files F27 75%" If this is a 75% copy, one would be able to paper walls with the full size sheets.

Collection

Janson-La Palme Collection

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1823 - 1825

Location

Drawer

Drawer 3

Cabinet

Map Case

Room

Basement

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Janson-La Palme, Bayly

Person or Organization

Kearney, James