51 the Roanoke colony, direct copies of the larger versions made by Governor White. Another boasts callig-raphy made famous by the great cartographer John Speed during the era of England’s Stuart monarchy. Still another records Fayetteville landmarks of the early 19th century that no longer exist in the modern city. “I’m still not a map expert by any means,” says the collector, who supplements his collection with the help of antiquities dealers in New York and Tennessee. “I just enjoy seeing, for instance, where one map maker made a mistake and it was picked up by another artist on another map. That sort of thing.” He points to a lake roughly where Jacksonville, Florida, is today that is found on another, later map. “That lake never did exist!” he says. On the other hand, on Governor White’s map, he points to a great lake along The 1606 Hondius- Mercator map was the most influential map of the American Southeast in the 17th century. It uniquely plotted out everything from Spanish St. Augustine to the North Carolina Outer Banks and Southern Virginia. www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM
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