Providing a snapshot of what Seymour and Boyds Creek looked like in 1884-1890, this decorative map is suitable for framing or rolling up to accompany the book. It is designed to look like an old map with subdued coloring and old-fashioned lettering. It will show the roads as they appeared on the first-ever USGS map of this area, exactly a century after settlement began in 1783. It shows the names of communities and waterways as they appeared on that map. Also included are the schools, churches, post offices, cemeteries, ferries, and some of the houses that were built during that first century. Special areas of interest marked are: historic Buckingham Island, which is hard to discern as an island these days; Chandler Gap, where formerly enslaved people settled after emancipation, and the hills of the Slate Knobs and Bays Mountain, which bordered and defined the settlement area first chosen by European immigrant families.
 
Proceeds go to Friends of Seymour Library, a nonprofit which supports the programs and activities of the Williams Family Seymour Branch Library.