DESCRIPTION: Fine manuscript pen and ink plan ca. 1880 titled: "Plan de deux enceintes primitives de Chalon sur Saone." Show the ancient city with the two ancient walls or "enceintes" at the village of Chalon-sur-Saône, France. Notes the location of many interesting sites including the "gibet" (gibbet) or post used as a gallows or place of execution.
With a unperforated red stamp bearing three circles ( the coat of arms of Chalon sur Saone) above the French medal Legion d'Honneur surmounted by a crown. Napoleon I awarded the Legion d'Honneur to the town of Chalon sur Saone in 1815 in recompense for their support during his Austrian campaign.
Top is oriented to the northeast. Shows the Saone river with bridges at right.The appeal also reveals how intertwined speculation and infrastructure were along the Georgia coast. The same investors held stock in the City of Brunswick Land Company, the Canal Company, and related ventures such as the Brunswick Land Company trust deed later cited in congressional records. The letter’s rhetoric promised that, once the canal opened, emigrants from Maine would build sawmills, lots near the wharves would sell instantly, and the city would finally justify earlier hopes of becoming a major southern port. It was both a financial circular and a piece of booster propaganda.
In the broader context, the letter marks one of the last organized attempts to complete the antebellum Brunswick Canal before the project faded into insolvency. It ties together every thread found in later documentation—the Ocean Bank trusteeship, D. Randolph Martin’s role as fiduciary, and the continuing pattern of Georgia infrastructure financed through northern capital. The document stands as a vivid example of how local ambition, speculative land companies, and Wall Street banking combined in the mid-nineteenth century to promote internal improvements along the southern seaboard.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1880
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: France
BODY OF WATER: Saone River
CONDITION: Good.
On medium-weight wove paper. Dirty but solid. No tears or holes.
COLORING: None.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 7
" x
10 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 77
PRICE: $175
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