We have compiled antique maps to present Charleston's development in a single layered graphic image. Click the link at right to launch. Passing the mouse over the titles will change the map, showing the growth of the peninsula city from 1673 through the present. The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.
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This program lets you view a huge photograph at 22 to 1 compression, and only shows the screen area at high resolution. MrSID also will export the whole or portions of the image to .TIF files. Bird's eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872. Drawn and published by C. Drie. View Drie's Map of Charleston Detail from Bird's eye view of the city of Charleston, South Carolina 1872.