Map: © Stephen F. Payer, 03/08/2005, All rights reserved

1. The tan colored basis map was found in the five volume Eckhart's "History of Carbon County" from the Dimmick Memorial Library, Jim Thorpe/Mauch Chunk. It was small and obscure among the pages of text. We enlarged and improved it using modern photo-computer techniques and complemented it with:

2. A scaled-to-fit area taken from a modern map. The red-bounded area illustrates the terrain coverage for most of the places described in this web site. It was created by scaling a topographical DeLorme map to the old towns indicated on the basis map, then overlaying the bounded area on the basis.

Alphabet letters in red indicate the locations of present day towns:

F-- Freeland
H -- Hazleton
M -- McAdoo
S -- Shenandoah
P -- Pottsville
T -- Tamaqua
N -- Nesquehoning
W -- Weatherly

The dashed red line shows the approximate route of the Mauch Chunk to Berwick Turnpike

The counties today showing (blue-bounded)
area of web site coverage

3. For a wider view of the bounded section see the map showing the roads, towns and townships of the tri-county area.