Local museums and historical societies often hold rare and unique cartographic resources that compliment larger map collections. A prime example of this is the Flower-Walker Collection at the Tioga Point Museum in Athens Pennsylvania. The museum holds a collection of over 800 hand-drawn, manuscript maps that depict in detail the development of Pennsylvania’s upper Susquehanna Valley from 1790 to 1940, a formative time period of land speculation and development in the United States’ history. The Flower-Walker collection is unique in that all maps in the collection come from a single family of surveyors who played a central role in documenting the settlement of the land. The Flower-Walker family’s rich tradition of surveying and commitment to preserving regional history, make this cartographic collection an exquisite case study of land speculation and development during the middle of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries of U.S. history.

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调查宾夕法尼亚州东北部地区：提奥加角博物馆（Tioga Point Museum）将花沃克（Walker-Walker）藏品情境化

当地的博物馆和历史学会经常拥有稀有且独特的制图资源，可以补充大量的地图。一个典型的例子是宾夕法尼亚州雅典的提奥加角博物馆的“花-行者收藏”。该博物馆收藏了800多幅手绘手稿地图，详细描绘了1790年至1940年宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎哈纳山谷上游的发展过程，这是美国历史上土地投机和发展的形成时期。Flower-Walker系列之所以与众不同，是因为该系列中的所有地图均来自一个测量师家庭，他们在记录土地定居方面起着核心作用。Flower-Walker家族的测量和维护地区历史的悠久传统，