Engraved town plan with old hand-coloring. Matted and hinged, sheet 616 x 540 mm. Accompanied on the same sheet with a large map of the region from Charleston, South Carolina in the north to Saint Augustine, Florida, with a smaller inset of Jekyll Island and St. Simon's Island and a detail inset of the town's saw mill operation on the Savannah River.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE COLONIAL GEORGIA MAPS: THE SALZBURGER COLONY. The Salzburgers were a group of Protestant refugees from the Archbishopric of Salzburg (modern-day Austria) who fled religious persecution in the early 18th century. In 1734, they were invited by King George II of England to settle in the new colony of Georgia. Led by Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius, they established the town of Ebenezer near Savannah. Despite initial hardships, they built a prosperous community, focusing on agriculture, particularly silk production. During the Revolutionary War, the town was burned down by British forces and eventually abandoned in 1855 and never fully recovered. Cumming 265.