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Cover/Deed: California map showing San Francisco, Newport. Newport, California, 1868
 View larger, zoomable image (turn off pop-up blocker) Full Title: (Cover and Deed to) California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine). Author: Newport, California Date: 1868 This historical cartographic image is part of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com, a large collection of online antique, rare, old, and historical maps, atlases, globes, charts, and other cartographic items. Read more about the Collection. Or you can view the entire David Rumsey Map Collection in Insight. Full David Rumsey Map Collection Catalog Record: Author: Newport, California Date: 1868 Short Title: Cover/Deed: California map showing San Francisco, Newport. Publisher: N.P.: No Publisher Type: Text Page Object Height cm: 36 Object Width cm: 43 Note: Large text page includes a 50 cent hand canceled stamp. Reference: None found. State / Province: California City: San Francisco (Calif.) Full Title: (Cover and Deed to) California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine). List No: 4099A Series No: 1 Published In: California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine). Publication Author: Newport, California Publication Date: 1868 Publication Reference: None found. Publication Note: Evidence of a land promotion that collapsed. The City of Newport is shown prominently on the map attached to the deed, as large as San Francisco, and connected by three railroads to other cities. Newport never got off the ground. The 1878 Solano County Atlas shows only a tiny hamlet called Collinsville where Newport should be (the deed says that Newport was "formerly" called Collinsville - but obviously Collinsville it remained when the speculative fever abated). On page 13 of the Solano Atlas is the following: "Many of the older settlers remember New Port and the enterprise of its proprietor in the disposition of town lots, and perhaps some of the people of the east have occasion to remember it also. Town lots were sold by agents in the east covering all the tide land in the vicinity." On the map is a descriptive paragraph pumping up Newport, saying that "a town situated like Newport...cannot fail of making its mark, and holding rank among the great cities of our country." It is not clear why the development scheme failed, but the likely reason is a change in the location of the railroads that left Newport isolated. The promoters were betting that the railroad to the Bay Area from the east would end at Newport and then connect by ferry to New York. Unfortunately the railroad was run to Vallejo with the crossing made there. Newport appears on the Frey/Nell Map of California and Nevada, 1868; Ransom & Doolittle's California and Nevada, 1868; Holt/Gibbes California and Nevada 1869 (and the smaller issues of 1873 and 1875); and the California Geological Survey's Map of the Region Adjacent to San Francisco Bay, 1873 (shows Newport and Collinsville next to each other). Interestingly, it never appears on the Bancroft Pacific States map and its spin off maps, but does appear on Bancroft's Map of Central California of 1869. The General Land Office maps of 1876 and 1879 do not show Newport, indicating its demise. Publication List No: 4099.000 Publication Type: Separate Map Publication Maps: 1 Publication Height cm: 36 Publication Width cm: 43 Image No: 4099A
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