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Bear Swamp on the 1853 map of Tompkins County, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Plenty of lakes, rivers, and other landmarks were named after animals, but the animals weren’t often shown on the maps. This map of Tompkins, county, New York is an exception! He you can see an illustration of a bear in bear swamp, located in the town of Groton! This bear isn’t the only animal on the map, how many animals can you see in the title?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plenty of lakes, rivers, and other landmarks were named after animals, but the animals weren’t often shown on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-things","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}