John Farmer, Map of the State of Michigan... (1853). 'Big Beaver I.' with Strang-era toponyms: St. James, Beaver Harbour, Enoch, The Pool of Siloam, Mt. Pisgah, Gennesareth L., Font L., PEAINE; the Fox Islands as 'or Paros I' / 'or Patmos I'.
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A vertically oriented, hand-colored printed map shows a large peninsula divided into many gridded counties, with surrounding waterways shaded blue. A decorative title cartouche appears in the upper right, while a compass rose, boundary lines, place labels, and an inset map occupy other areas. Fine printed text covers much of the map.
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David Rumsey Map Collection
9,084 × 13,099 px · JPEG · 8.4 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
MAP OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN (And the Surrounding Country)
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogued as John Farmer’s 1853 map of Michigan, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection. The archive description identifies historical labels including St. James, Beaver Harbour, Enoch, The Pool of Siloam, Mt. Pisgah, Gennesareth L., Font L., and PEAINE, and alternate names for the Fox Islands.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Most small map labels and text beyond the main title are not legible at this view.
Rights and credit
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (David Rumsey Map Collection)
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Provenance
- Held by
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Collection
- Historical maps — David Rumsey Map Collection
- Named on the record
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Date
- 1853
- Original
- https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/RUMSEY~8~1~236858~5510923/full/9084,/0/default.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- an article in this archive
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 9,084 × 13,099 px | 8.4 MB | bce5391ba614… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
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In this archive
- Written aboutJohn Farmer map of Michigan, 1853
Cite this
David Rumsey Map Collection. “John Farmer map of Michigan, 1853”. 1853. David Rumsey Map Collection. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/farmer-1853-michigan/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.
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