Map of Part of the Coal Field Between Kanawha and Coal Rivers, Showing Location of Cabin Creek Coal Company's Lands and Railways and Collieries Now in Operation, in Fayette, Boone and Kanawha Counties, West Virginia / Map of Cabin Creek Coal Co. Lands, Embracing 15,532 Acres, in Boone and Kanawha Cos., W. Va, From Surveys by M. A. Miller, C. E. [Signed / Inscribed by Jedediah Hotchkiss]

Staunton, VA: The Virginias, 1883. First Edition. Very good. Two maps, one to each half of a single card stock sheet; 13 1/4 x 23 1/2; partially hand-colored; vertical fold through the middle with two closed cuts; several closed splits to edges and a small chip to bottom; a bit of offset from red paint to left margin; in good to very good condition. Signed and inscribed in brown ink by Jedediah Hotchkiss to bottom margin.An unrecorded set of maps, published in Staunton as a supplement to "The Virginias" (A Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal, Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia), it was created by Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828 - 1899), the most famous topographer and cartographer of the Civil War and, arguably, the driving force behind Confederate General Stonewall Jackson's victories during the 1862 Valley Campaign. He was also an educator and founder of the Mossy Creek Academy in the Shenandoah Valley. The maps showed the coal fields in hand-colored pink, the Kanawha River in blue, with all its major tributaries and creeks, the railroads in red, and vertical scales of coal deposits in black. (Inventory #: 003282)