As maps go, it is not terribly spectacular. No gilt margin, terra incognitum, or fanciful sea monsters. The cartographer has included two ships but they look more like pea pods than anything sea worthy. Drawn in pen on paper, the map depicts less than a square mile, with land making up about half the map, water about a third, and the title, legend, and white space the rest. Thomas Phelps, in service on the navy sloop of war
I too struggle happily when walking in a place so changed that most know not that it even had anything different than now. My place is Cedar Mtn. 135 years go there was a town, several mines and a whole host of different roads accessing the area. I spend hours looking at petitions for these first roads in the King County Road Maintenance Map Vault. They were mostly muddy trails in the 1880s that barely supported wagons. Then we have the bridges built, torn down and replaced over and over.
This feeling of standing with one foot in today's world and the other in a past no one knows certainly gives us historical vertigo.
Also of note is the location of “Curleys camp” seen on the first map upper left near the Sawdust. And then Tehumsechs camp”, on a later map called “Indian camp” , lower area of maps. I believe these names refer to two different chiefs or sub chiefs named Curley, whose relative Peggy Curley and Christian Scheuerman raised 10 of their own children as well as 2 of her other children in early Seattle.
"Little known version by Robinson and Jackson. (no clue when or why)" UGH! That is a Hewitt Robinson Jackson from 1972. It was part of his prep for his drawing of the Decatur which takes this map and lays it out behind the ship. It is reprinted in Maritime Seattle (2002) on page 11 credited Courtesy of the artist, Hewitt Jackson. It may also have been a mural at Pier 70.
It makes me sad that people don't know Hewitt's work. His watercolors of maritime ships are just amazing
I too struggle happily when walking in a place so changed that most know not that it even had anything different than now. My place is Cedar Mtn. 135 years go there was a town, several mines and a whole host of different roads accessing the area. I spend hours looking at petitions for these first roads in the King County Road Maintenance Map Vault. They were mostly muddy trails in the 1880s that barely supported wagons. Then we have the bridges built, torn down and replaced over and over.
This feeling of standing with one foot in today's world and the other in a past no one knows certainly gives us historical vertigo.
Brave Mrs Holgate, amidst the throng of Indians 😆🤦
Also of note is the location of “Curleys camp” seen on the first map upper left near the Sawdust. And then Tehumsechs camp”, on a later map called “Indian camp” , lower area of maps. I believe these names refer to two different chiefs or sub chiefs named Curley, whose relative Peggy Curley and Christian Scheuerman raised 10 of their own children as well as 2 of her other children in early Seattle.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/258775875/rebecca_scheuerman
Have you read A Wild Heavenly Place by Robin Oliviera? Set in Seattle in the late 1800s!
"Little known version by Robinson and Jackson. (no clue when or why)" UGH! That is a Hewitt Robinson Jackson from 1972. It was part of his prep for his drawing of the Decatur which takes this map and lays it out behind the ship. It is reprinted in Maritime Seattle (2002) on page 11 credited Courtesy of the artist, Hewitt Jackson. It may also have been a mural at Pier 70.
It makes me sad that people don't know Hewitt's work. His watercolors of maritime ships are just amazing