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Additional pedagogical interpretations
Topic: Historical Geography of Cherokee County
Chad Hoge
Objectives
1) To create a pictorial
representation of the development of Cherokee County
2) To identify geographic patterns in the residential, commercial, social, and
industrial development of the county
3) To identify a link between the geographic, economic, and historical development
of the county
Materials Needed
Process
Copy the date of construction, resource number, historical theme, location, and outbuildings columns from specific records in the Latham Property Survey database into an Excel document and sort the data by year constructed. This will require you to assign a specific year to entries with circa dates, chose a year that seems to best reflect reality.
Use "Mapquest" to locate the earliest entry in the database, where an address is not provided, use the nearest intersection. Use the zoom function in "Mapquest" to locate the property on the 1830 map.
Use the paint brush function in Adobe Photoshop (or some other program) to place a dot on the property's location on the digital map for 1830. Use different colored dots to indicate which historical theme the property reflects - create a key to attach to the digital map
Try to use the outbuildings located on the property to determine what type of agriculture was practiced on the property, when possible indicate the type with a unique color
Repeat this process for all properties constructed on or before 1830.
Repeat the process for each
of the historical maps. Each map will reflect the period of time between its
date and that of the previous map, for example the 1864 map should have all
the properties in the database that were constructed between the years 1847
and 1864, including 1864. Include the dots from the previous map; however make
the color for older properties lighter to distinguish them from those constructed
during the era indicated on the map.
This is a sample of what your map might look like.
Save these maps and the corresponding keys on a CD
Analysis
Consider the following questions
1. Is the history of Cherokee
County that is provided in this document evident in your maps?
2. Which parts of this history are evident?
3. What sort of patterns do you see?
4. What is missing and why?
5. What additional information would you need to create a map that reflects
the entire history of the county?
6. Where might you get this data?
7. What sort of geographic patterns do you see in the county?
8. Are schools and churches evenly distributed? If not, why?
9. What can be said about the geographic development of the county? Consider
the relationship between commerce, agriculture, industry, and government
10. Is the information provided by these maps historically and geographically
accurate?
11. Are you missing critical data?
12. What additional data would increase the authenticity of this information?
13. Where could one get his information?
14. Should each map represent a set amount of time?
15. Can you satisfy the objectives of this lesson with the maps you created
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