Looking back about 400 years Mark Gearhart was the featured speaker at the spring meeting of the Northumberland County Historical Society on Sunday, April 6. Gearhart explained how he developed a 17th ...

When these companies were consolidated in the 1960s, a new map was created using a “Beckian grid.” Named after Harry Beck, ...

That set him off on a lifetime of exploring and acquiring old maps. “I don’t like later maps that show all he roads and all the towns and every county. I like the early maps that have almost ...

My father nudged me to ask the shopkeeper if they had any old maps of the Philippines. I ignored him. Decades later, smarting from the prices of old Philippine maps at the Gallery of Prints, I ...