Dear VA-HIST,

This topic has come up on occasion...what was the historical county line going through Petersburg, VA?  Now the NHGIS (National Historical Geographic Information System:  www.nhgis.org) has the line going basically north-south through what is modern day Petersburg.  

However a colleague has found a map at:  http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/virginia/topo/index.html

which shows a dark dashed line running north to Lieutenant Creek (called Lieutenant Run in modern-day TIGER), then apparently following the creek, then right about where the creek starts to turn north-south, a dotted line breaks off to the northeast until the edge of the urbanized area, then heads roughly north to the Appomattox River. 

Is this dotted line the original county line?  I am thinking it is, although it is different from the dark dashed line south of the city.     

Joe McCollum
Information Technology Specialist
Forest Inventory and Analysis
Knoxville, TN  37919


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