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Title: Elisha Mitchell's Plan of the Lots on the Avenue, [1851]: Electronic Edition.

Author: Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.

Text transcribed by Bari Helms

Images scanned by Bari Helms

Text encoded by Brian Dietz

First Edition, 2005

Size of electronic edition: ca. 7K

Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

2005

The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.

Languages used in the text: English

Revision history:

2005-07-07, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.

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Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title of document: Elisha Mitchell's Plan of the Lots on the Avenue, [1851]

Author: E. M.

Description: 1 page, 1 page image

Note: Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

oclc: 27188892

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Elisha Mitchell's

Plan of the Lots on the Avenue, [1851]

Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

Page 1

note=Pen-and-ink map prepared in [1851] by Elisha Mitchell, professor of chemistry and university bursar, showing the layout of the lots on what is now Cameron Avenue west of the university campus.; spatial=Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina; coordinates=35.94725 N, 79.07378 W; size=21 x 34 cm; file format=JPEG; spatial resolution=100;

Plan of the lots on the Avenue

The donations of land to the Trustees were bounded by lines running N and S — East and West. The streets of the village were laid off at angles of 28° and 62° with the meridian. When therefore lots are laid off at and near the boundary it becomes necessary to accommodate the lines to the course of the streets. E. Mitchell

proposes to take from the Trustees the tract (No 1 A) and give them tract (No 1 B) in which exchange he will have a little the best of the bargain, but not much (No 1 A) being rocky and broken. Also to give (No 2 a.) and take (No 2 b) which is perfectly fair.

E. M.