County maps for highway improvement planning

Arranged by county in no particular order.

This series consists of maps created pursuant to Chapter 715 of the Laws of 1907 for the purpose of highway improvement planning. Under this law, the State Engineer and Surveyor was directed to file a copy of each map with the appropriate board of supervisors and county clerk and a copy of all county maps with the Secretary of State "to be kept as a state record." These maps comprise the "state record" referred to in the law.

A4610-98:The maps are paper mounted on cloth, stamped "Department of State." Each map shows improved county highways, those under contract for improvement, and those designated for improvement under the law. Not all counties in New York State are represented in the series. Most of the maps were annotated in anticipation of updates generated pursuant to Section 315 of Chapter 330 of the Laws of 1908. These map legends contain additional entries for: highways designated for future improvement and added by resolution of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to 1908 legislation; and highways designated for future improvement and struck out by resolution of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to 1908 legislation. Despite the annotations, no corresponding symbols were added to the map legends and no changes were made to the maps themselves.

A4610-03:This accretion consists of one volume of folded paper maps. The maps are duplicates of the maps in A4610-98, but none bear the annotations that were added to most of the maps in the "state record" set in anticipation of updates generated pursuant to Section 315 of Chapter 330 of the Laws of 1908. Unlike the "state record" set of maps, this volume includes maps for all fifty-seven counties outside of New York City.

A4610-98: Item list.

A4610-03: Numerical page index in front of volume

A4610-98: These records were originally processed as part of State Archives series A0442 (obsolete). The records were transferred to the Archives from the State Library in 1978 and from the Dept. of State to the State Library at an earlier date. This accession results from a project by Archives staff in 1998 to describe or integrate estrayed or unidentified records.

A4610-03: Although no documentation exists regarding the transfer of this volume, it was most likely transferred to the State Archives by the State Library. The volume bears the insignia, "Compliments of Frederick Skene, State Engineer and Surveyor," indicating its original source. The volume was accessioned in conjunction with a project undertaken by Archives staff in 2003 to describe or integrate estrayed or unidentified records.

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