RANDOM PICTURE THREAD - Post ANY of your favorite pictures here to share with Tnet...

Ohiogoldfever · Oct 20, 2022

pepperj said:
Here is the write up details:
Abraham Bradley Jr. (1767–1838) was an American lawyer, judge, and cartographer who served as Assistant Postmaster General for 30 years during the earliest history of the United States Post Office Department. He was responsible for moving the federal government's post office from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the new capital at Washington, D.C., and briefly hosted the national post office in his own home. The continuity brought by Bradley's long employment during the tenures of five United States postmasters general helped establish the budding postal service as a reliable provider; he also drew detailed and innovative postal route maps that built the office's efficiency. He drew one of the first comprehensive maps of the United States in 1796; it "represented the first clear cartographic break in European-dominated map making and introduced a new, more distinctly American style of cartography to the United States". In 1804, Bradley drew this map of American post roads and post offices, spanning the Orleans Territory (now Louisiana) in the southwest to Maine in the northeast. The hand-colored map measures 98 by 132 centimeters (39 in × 52 in).

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

desmobob · Oct 20, 2022

Ed_DE · Oct 20, 2022

Ed_DE · Oct 20, 2022

Fort Dupont date's back to the civil war. Across the road is a restored cemetery for African American union soldiers. And then miles & miles of bicycle riding.

WannaDig3687 · Oct 21, 2022

WannaDig3687 · Oct 21, 2022

pepperj said:
1913 only was listening to a program about how many have gone.

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/documenting-ukrainian-canadian-churches-photography-Ottawa

Thank you, Pepperj. That’s really cool what he is doing.