{"id":567,"date":"2018-11-05T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2018-11-11T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:48:06","slug":"crooked-stump-on-1879-kentucky-county-map-garrard-lincoln-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/crooked-stump-on-1879-kentucky-county-map-garrard-lincoln-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Stump on 1879 Kentucky County Map – Garrard & Lincoln County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just found a “Crooked Stump” on an 1879 Kentucky County Wall map. It’s on the Garrard\/Lincoln County wall map, right next to Richmond Junction . Why is it there?  It must have been a big deal to neighbor “J. Pepples” and the other folks in the area.  Was it huge, or all alone in the middle of a  large farm field? Was it a gathering place?  The 19th century wall maps always show houses, businesses, roads and rivers. Occasionally we also see a major land feature like a mountain cliff or an historic site. But a crooked stump?
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The Garrard and Lincoln County map was published in 1879 n the midst of a busy period of county map-making in Kentucky. The map shows names and locations of 1000s of homeowners.  Each county is divided into Precincts – presumably an early political subdivison (not towns as in New England ). The largest city , Lancaster, is mapped in a large inset map as well as on the larger county map. Note that the railroad is shown coursing through Lancaster.  Railroads were new to this area in 1879.<\/p>\n

Our county map image was made from the multi-image scans at the New York Public library this October.  We assembled the 4 pieces – cleaned up the edges and did other edits to make an attractive wall map.
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Just found a “Crooked Stump” on an 1879 Kentucky County Wall map. It’s on the Garrard\/Lincoln County wall…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-maps","category-interesting-things","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}