Old Topsail Inlet to Shallotte Inlet Including Cape Fear

by North Carolina

$275 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare original coastal survey of the Cape Fear area including Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Bald Head Island, Carolina Beach, Caswell Beach, Oak Island, Holden Beach, and a map of Old Topsail Inlet to Masonboro Inlet in the bottom right corner. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S.

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