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- One of the most “popular” and yet misunderstood visual images of colonial Charleston is the map commonly known as the “ Crisp Map.” Since it’s the only published map that shows the first walls surrounding the city, many books and articles use this image as a principal illustration of life in early colonial Charleston.
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Apr 17, 2008 · As far as the fortifications of early colonial Charleston are concerned, the authentic 1711 version of the Crisp Map is a very important source of information for understanding the nature, location, and identity of the town’s various urban defenses at that moment.
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Sep 10, 2009 · This map, published in London in 1711, depicts the small urban settlement of Charles Town confined within a system of walls. A number of features in the town are marked with letters or numbers and identified in an accompanying "Explanation" or key.
Aug 30, 2019 · The 1711 illustration of Charleston known as the “Crisp map” shows two “bridges” or wharves on the east side of East Bay Street: One owned by Landgrave Thomas Smith, just a bit south of the east end of Tradd Street, and one built sometime around the turn of the eighteenth century by William Rhett, located slightly north of Broad Street.
Crisp Map of Charles Town - 1711 - Cartographer Edward Crisp created this map from surveys completed by John Love, Maurice Mathews, and Captain Thomas Nairne. Some sources give the date as 1715, but this is inaccurate.
The so-called “Crisp Map” of 1711, for example, depicts only two small wharves within urban Charleston. It appears, therefore, that Isaac Mazyck’s suburban property, located just a few hundred feet north of the town boundary, was a working plantation hosting agricultural or industrial endeavors for which no records survive.
The 1711 Crisp Map shows Vanderhorst’s Creek (M), Granville Bastion (A) and Ashley Bastion (E) connected by a palisade across the narrow tributary, and Colleton Bastion (D) north of Meeting Street. The original plan for Charles Towne laid out a grid of streets and building lots on the peninsula.
Oct 3, 2023 · Designed to promote colonial settlement, the Crisp Map of 1711, includes an inset of the walled city of "Charles Town," part of a marketing strategy showing it as the secure center of a vital and expanding seacoast colony. Edward Crisp was actually the publisher of the map, not the surveyor, and likely never set foot in the Colony.
