Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587–1783 by William C. Wooldridge

On December 5 at Noon, William C. Wooldridge will deliver a Banner Lecture entitled "Mapping Virginia: Pictures of a Moving Place, 1587-1783."

Drawing from the engaging images in Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Discovery to the Civil War, Bill Wooldridge will show the very different ways that cartographers, and by implication their audiences, conceived of Virginia from generation to generation from the sixteenth century through the Revolutionary War. Until the mid-eighteenth century, these changing visions of Virginia had only a distant connection to changes in the colony's legal boundaries. Instead, they reflected the Old World's evolving understanding of the place, from exotic Eden to much of Eastern North America to the country around Chesapeake Bay to imperial England's greatest province.

William C. Wooldridge, a retired attorney and current VHS trustee, is the author of Mapping Virginia and of several articles on cartographic history.

This lecture is cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia.

Note: Free admission for Richmond Times-Dispatch readers with a Press Pass coupon.