The Sorrows of Gin

As our culture continues its decline, we celebrate the decadence of women, cocktails and classic American style.

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A Map of the State of New Jersey, 9/25/1812

File Unit: United States, 1784 - 1890

Series: Civil Works Map File, 1818 - 1947

Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1789 - 1999

Image description: A map of New Jersey, with the counties outlined in various colors. It shows towns, roads, waterways, mountains, “drowned lands,” and Lawrence’s Line, the dividing line between East and West Jersey drawn by Lawrence in 1743. 

Image description: Zoomed-in view of the portion of the map showing Newark (just north of current Port Newark), New Barbados (now the Kearny Point area), Bergen (now Jersey City), and a bit of New York, which has about five streets drawn on the very tip of Manhattan.

(Source: catalog.archives.gov)