[Manuscript Map of the Land Around Rae's Creek Belonging to Thomas Flournoy]

[Augusta], 1825. Good.. Manuscript map, 15.25 x 12.5 inches. Docketed on verso. Old folds. Wear and separation at several folds with minor loss, light toning and foxing. Handsome map of the area around Augusta which is today, in part, the Augusta National Golf Course. The map indicates the 461 acres owned by Thomas Flournoy (1775-1857), a lawyer who served in the War of 1812 and later as an Indian Commissioner in Georgia. The map depicts a charming illustration of Flournoy's house, near Rae's Creek, also indicating water ways, the Bath Spring, a saw mill, types of forest on the property, as well as the details about purchases for several pieces of acreage from different individuals. The main tract, 412 acres, was purchased from Lucy Lamar. The key indicates a scale of ten chains to the inch, while noting that "This platt is a tolerable representation of the Rae's Creek land belonging to Thomas Flournoy, in the year 1822... but it is laid down by guess, not depending on actual measurements. Nor is the scale correct." Docketing on the verso indicates the map was updated in 1825 to include additional land purchases, and a further note on the recto is dated 1829.