Original 1882 survey map showing the improvements to Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut, printed more than 135 years ago.

• The map locates breakwaters, beacons, and dredged areas along the approach from Long Island Sound.



• It shows two lighthouses at the harbor entrance, opposite the outer bar: the 1851 light and the lighthouse built in 1871 (replaced with a skeleton tower in 1953).



• Other named features include the horse railroad bridge, steramboat slip, Cook's Point, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Crescent Bridge, Cook's Mill, and the Tongue. (The Tongue Point Lighthouse, still in operation today, had not yet been built when this map was printed.)



• The image area measures 29 x 18 cm [11½" x 7¼"]. There's a distance scale and chart of contours.



• The map was printed in Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to the Secretary of War, for the Year 1882, Washington, D.C.



• It was compiled under the direction of Major John Whitney Barlow, the officer in charge of the improvement of harbors and rivers on Long Island Sound. Barlow's signature is shown in facsimile below the legend.



• During the Civil War he had served with the Battalion of Engineers at Gettysburg and as engineer of an army corps in the siege of Atlanta. As General Sheridan's Chief Engineer in the mid-1870s he made scientific explorations of the headwaters of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.



• Condition:  The map is in very good condition, bright and clean, with folds, as issued, and no marks, rips, or tears. It is printed on a lightweight paper and folds to approximately 8½" x 5¼". It is blank on the back, with no printing on the reverse side. Please see the scans and feel free to ask any questions.



• It is an original, authentic antique map, not a reproduction or modern reprint, and it is fully guaranteed to be genuine.



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