The maps name is: Stadt St. Domingo. C. F. Fritzsch, sculp. Chedel, del.
This map is thought to be created and published by Leipzig in 1755. It is a perspective map and not drawn to scale. This is a birds-eye-view of the original fort which is now the Colonial Zone.
The map is located in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
This maps name is: Plan du siège de Santo Doming[o] par Dess[a]lines, chef des révoltes de St. Domingue, forme le 15 ventôse et levé le 8 germinal an 13.
It was created/published in 1805. It is a relief map showing the shadows and depth perspective. It is a pen and watercolor drawing. The full version that can be found in the Library of Congress
This map is stored in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
I cropped this section out of the map to show the Colonial City. It is interesting to see the buildings and the out skirts of the city. There seems to be nothing out there.
Here are some very old maps of the Dominican Republic, which at this time the country was called Hispanola or Santo Domingo. It is interesting to see Colonial Zone when it was fresh and new (here is a
historical document I found where the writer describes the city and island). The maps of the entire country are interesting to compare.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did when I found them.
Louis Drake Mountains Map
Map Title: North America, performed under the patronage of Louis Duke of Orleans, First Prince of the Blood; by the Sieur d'Anville, greatly improved by Mr. Bolton. Engraved by R. W. Seale. For Mr. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of trade and commerce. Gravelot, delin; Walker, sculp
Created/Published: [London] Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1752.
Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows provinces, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory. Also shows shoals, banks, and other navigational hazards off the coast of Nova Scotia and in the Caribbean area.
Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
Map call number: G3300 1752 .B62 Vault
It is interesting to see in this map the shape of the island and the names of the towns. if you look at the other maps of the islands each has the island shaped a little differently.
Joseph Spear map
To His Royal Highness. George Augustus Frederick. Prince of Wales &c. &c. &c. This chart of the West Indies, is humbly inscribed by His Royal Highness faithful & obedient servant Joseph Smith Speer. Thos. Bowen, sculpt.
Speer, Joseph Smith.
Created/Published: Westminster, 1774.
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows southern United States, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermudas, and northern South America. Includes acknowledgment dated Jan. 25, 1774 at Plantation Office, Whitehall by John Pownall, secry.
Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
Map call number: G4390 1774 .S62 Vault Oversize
It is interesting to see the names of the towns at that time. Also Dominican Republic seems to have been known as Santo Domingo.
A drawing of the original city of Santo Domingo - Colonial Zone. It is interesting to note the way the buildings look at this time and to note that many of them are still the same.
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Real Life and Times in the Dominican Republic
These maps are of Sir Francis Drakes early voyages. He visited many parts of the island of Hispanola and other parts of the West Indies (as the area was called at that time). this is a PDF version and you can click on the maps to enlarge them.
