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Title: A plan of the batteries erected in the front of the town of Halifax, 1755 [cartographic material]
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Date Created and/or Issued: 1755
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Manuscript plan showing the defensive batteries around Halifax about 6 years after the first European settled there. Shows the layout of the town, the Governor's house, store, ordinance and market buildings and the King's wharf.
Extent: 1 map ; 34 x 54 cm
Identifier: mssHM 15423
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/16191
Subject: Halifax (N.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Fortification--Nova Scotia--Halifax--Maps
Nova Scotia--History--To 1763--Maps
Early works
Early maps. (lcgft)
Manuscripts (aat)
Source: Kashnor Collection of Early American Maps, 1670-1856
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 93, No. 318, 1924. CSmH

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