Lithographed map and plan. On the left side of the sheet is "Map of a Portion of the Valley of the San Joaquin including Stockton & its Environs"; to the right is the plan of Stockton. Both are enclosed in a single border, and measure 56.5x75.8 cm (22¼x29¾") plus wide margins; the map is approx. 54.4x23 cm, and the plan 56x51 cm.
Rare plan of one of the leading towns of the California gold rush, the gateway to the middle mines. Warren Heckrotte describes it at some length: "The map is not listed in W-GR. This is the best map of this area up to this time. Some place names make their first appearance. Roads are shown. It cuts off in east just before some of the mining camps such as Sonora, Angel's Camp and Jacksonville; road to Sonora is shown. This map came from Moira Holden, the great granddaughter of Captain Charles M. Weber, the founder of Stockton. Stockton appears on the map of the gold region in the California Herald of 12/26/1848; that probably marks the first appearance of Stockton on a general map of the gold region. Mawn, Jasper O'Farrell: Surveyor, Farmer & Politician, p 32, states that O'Farrell laid out Stockton initially in fall of 1847. From the text it appears that he laid out only one block. Hammond's survey extended this."
Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte
Full title: City of Stockton [in upper margin] | Surveyed for the Proprietor Charles M. Weber by Richd. P. Hammond Bvt. Major 3d. Artillery June, 1849 | Direction and width of the Streets By Compass N. 27º 50' W 80 ft. N 62º 10' E. 60 ft. | [diagram giving variation of Compass] | Scale of feet for the Plan of the City [linear scale - 1 inch = 300 ft] | Map of a Portion of the Valley of the San Joaquin including Stockton & its Environs | Scale of miles for this map [linear scale - about 4 miles to one inch] | [lower margin] Lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co. N.Y.
Provenance: Argonaut, 2/9/98
References: Hammond and Morgan, Captain Charles M. Weber , under maps, no 3. In BaL. Hammond, The Weber Era in Stockton History, reproduced, p 118. Reps, Cities of the American West, p 215, plate 7.15.