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Primary document
Title: Plan of the Village of Chapel Hill on a Scale of 200 yards to an Inch, September 4, 1817: Electronic Edition.
Author: No Author
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Imaging and Photographic Services, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 8K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2006-03-02, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Plan of the Village of Chapel Hill on a Scale of 200 yards to an Inch, September 4, 1817
Author: No Author
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
oclc:
27188892
Editorial practices
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Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
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For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
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Plan of the Village of Chapel Hill on a scale of 200 yards to an Inch
Scale of
Scale of
Explanation
The main or Franklin Street is 99 feet wide
The narrow streets are 45 feet wide
Tolls no. 1 & 2 of the 4 acre lots are 168⅓ yards by 115
The other four acre lots are 139 yards square
The two acre lots are 98⅔ yards square
It is 295 yards from the south edge of the main street to the nearest part of the of the wings of the buildings
The avenue running by the President's house is 98 feet wide
The main street runs North 62° East
The outer lines show the Boundary of the lands held by the Trustees for the use of the University chiefly acquired by donation
Copy from a Plot in the possession of Wm Pannell which was taken from the Plot of John Craig Esq