Between 1865-1868, Jacob Kuyper published a series of atlases with municipal maps. These show the location of all the hamlets, villages, and larger towns in the municipality, as well as the main roads and railroads. The Kuyper maps are often available at the websites of archives or via Wikimedia Commons.
This week we are looking at a map of Ouddorp. I know several readers have ancestors from that village, since many people emigrated from Ouddorp in the mid-1800s. The map shows the municipality is on the west end of the island Goeree-Overflakkee in the province of South Holland. It shows the dunes protecting the town, and differend polders had that been reclaimed from the sea.
Map of Ouddorp, 1868. Credits: Jacob Kuyper, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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