This map shows the locations of major landmarks, farms, land grants, physical features, and the dwellings of promient and important residents in Salem during 1692.
<p><span class="deck"> To David Thompson—who died blind, penniless, and bypassed by history—we owe our first knowledge of the American continent’s rugged Northwest</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Behind the ancient towers of the Duke of Northumberland's home are the unique Revolutionary War battle maps of the general who saved the British from disaster at Lexington</span> </span></p>
<p>After the French and Indian War, Britain reimagined North America and created hundreds of maps to bring about that vision after having gained vast new territories.</p>
<p>Popular history tells us that America was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. But could there be other, perhaps even older origins of the name?</p>
