Links to selected map series and collections at the State Archives are listed below:
  • The guide for Manuscript Group 11, the Map Collection, contains descriptions of over 1,000 maps, which are divided into seven sections, including: 1 ) Colony and Commonwealth; 2) Counties; 3) Townships; 4) Cities and Boroughs; 5) Boundaries, Topography, Geology, Parks; 6) Transportation (Indian trails, roads and turnpikes, rivers and streams, canals, railroads, air, etc.); 7) Military and Battlefields (French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, Civil War).
  • The Melish-Whiteside Maps include scanned images of county maps from forty-four of the Commonwealth's sixty-seven counties, which were created between 1816 and 1821.
  • The Warrantee Township Maps depict original land owners for selected townships across the state. Not all of these warrantee maps have been scanned, however more are being digitized every week. Please check back in the coming weeks or months if the map you want has not been scanned.


     

    Lycoming County Melish-Whiteside Map