Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms

Map 12 Resources

On-line Resources

Information on the Interstate Highway System

U.S. Department of Transportation, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Library
www.tfhrc.gov
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/highway.html
U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Historian
http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/historian.htm

Information on canals

Supplemental Images

Maps

Canal and Railroad Map of the State of New York, 1920 Canal and Railway Map of the State of New York to Accompany the Legislative Manual. Albany, New York: J.B. Lyon Company, 1920. Newberry Library call number: 3800 1920.L9.
New York Canals and Railroads, 1862 Map of the State of New York Showing Its Canals and Railroads. Albany, New York: Comstock and Cassidy, 1862. Newberry Library call number: Map 6F oG3801.P53 1862 N4.

Supplemental Text

Road Guides

Road Guide 1: selections from The Mohawk-Hobbs Grade and Surface Guide, no. 7 (Eastern Dixie Highway and Other Roads). 4th edition. Akron, Ohio: The Mohawk Rubber Co., ca. 1928[?].
Road Guide 2: selections from the Official Automobile Blue Book, Standard Road Guide of America. Vol. 6 (Southeastern States), 1920. For Windows users only: If you are using a computer screen or LCD projector in class, you may want to display this supplement in its interactive Digital Book format.
Road Guide 3: Selections from "Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State," compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Florida. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Fifth printing, April 1947. Newberry Library call number: G872.28

Grades 6-8 Resources

Grades 9-12 Resources