This is a section of Augusta County electronically generated from topographical maps. Such a map will be able to be rotated so that features can be seen from different angles. This manipulability will be useful both for showing the distribution of people and institutions on the landscape and for a more dynamic understanding of battles.
The map on the left is a small segment of a property map of Chambersburg in the 1870s; the map on the right is a similar map of villages in Augusta County. These maps show who lived in each house and on each farm of both counties. By linking points on the map with other sources, the maps can serve as entryways into the database.
This is a sample of a map of the Valley--showing the high value of property its entire length--generated by the Great American History Machine developed at Carnegie-Mellon by David Miller and Stephan Greene and now available at the University of Maryland. This geographic package permits the interactive mapping of an enormous array of county-level data from 1790 to the late twentieth century. It may be possible for users of the Valley Project to access a subset of the History Machine to see Chambersburg and Staunton in context.
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