| Summary: | This image is a map of the general highways in Escambia County, Alabama in 1969. It shows roads and roadway features; railroads; streams, canals, and navigation features; bridges; conservation and recreation areas; city and village centers; state, county, and local boundaries; highway numbers; airports; farms, dwellings, churches, and cemeteries; natural features; oil wells, mining, and other industrial features; educational and correctional institutions; post offices, courthouses, power plants, underground telephone lines, and other public service facilities; and miscellaneous features. The map contains a legend right above the bottom neat line, a graph of approximate mean declination together with a table of dated revision to the left of the map title, and a locator map of Alabama with the county highlighted in the lower right corner. There are two inset maps of the city of McCullough and the city of Canoe with their own scale to the left of the legend. The map was "prepared by the Alabama State Highway Department Bureau of Planning and Programming Surveying and Mapping Division in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration." Map caption: "Control by USC & GS, and Alabama Highway Department. Transverse Mercator Projection. 1927 North American Datum. 30,000 foot grid based on Alabama (West) rectangular coordinate system. Compiled by photogrammetric methods from aerial photographs taken 1953. Field examination 1969." This map is an original print in black and white. It is in good condition and is not encapsulated.
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