New York State Harbor Commission Bulkhead Line, Pierhead Line and Encroachment Maps

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Maps in this series were created by the Harbor Commissioners for the preservation of the New York City Harbor from encroachments in pursuance of the act of March 30, 1855, chapter 121. The commissioners consisted of George W. Patterson, James Bowen, John L. Talcott, Bradford R. Wood, John Vanderbilt, and Thomas Clowes. The maps were surveyed by the United States Coast Survey, led by Professor A.D. (Alexander Dallas) Bache, superintendent in 1856. The Harbor Commissioners, along with the United States Coast Survey, created two volumes of the Atlas of the New-York Harbor as well as topographic and hydro-graphic sheets for New York Bay and Harbor. The records were filed with the secretary of state in 1857 and 1860.

This series contains bulkhead line, pierhead line, and encroachment maps of New York Harbor as well as part of the Harlem River, East River, Westchester County, and the shores of Long Island and New Jersey.

Series B0634, New York State Harbor Commission Description of the Bulkhead and Pier Lines of the Port of New York, describes many of the maps found in Series B2570.

This series is indexed by Mix, David E.E. "Catalogue of Maps and Surveys in the Office of the Secretary of State, State Engineer and Surveyor, and Comptroller, and the State Library," (Albany: 1859), pages 36-41.

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