Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of the American Southwest
Exhibition

Based on an exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum and The University of Texas at Arlington Library, this Humanities Texas traveling exhibition spans the mapmaking enterprise, beginning with the earliest known map to show the Texas edge of the Gulf (1512) and ending with an 1873 map of Texas showing the right of way granted to railroads. For more information, please contact the Spellman Museum of Forney History.

May 30–
June 27, 2017
Spellman Museum of Forney History
102 E. Broad St. #317
Forney, TX 75126

Map

Map of event location
Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride, by the first Royal Geographer of France, 1656. Ragsdale Collection.