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Geography in Virginia Four Hundred Years of Geography and Geography Education in the Old Dominion Geography in Virginia Four Hundred Years of Geography and Geography Education in the Old Dominion A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Arts at George Mason University By Monika M. Bachmann Masters of Arts University of Toronto, 1988 Director: Allan Falconer, Professor Associate Dean for Corporate Outreach Spring Semester 2009 George Mason University Fairfax, VA Table of Contents Page List of Tables..……………………………………………………………………. iv List of Figures…………………………………………………………………….. v Abstract…………………………………………………………………………… vii Chapter 1 - Introduction..…………………………………….…………………… 1 From Jamestown to Independence………................................................... 11 From Independence to Civil War……………………………………...…. 13 From Civil War to the Twentieth Century……………………………..… 16 The Twentieth Century……………………………………...……………. 19 Some Conclusions……………………………………………………….… 23 Chapter 2 – From Jamestown to Independence…………………………………… 27 Geography before Jamestown……………………………………………... 29 17th Century Virginia Geographies………………………………………... 36 18th Century Virginia Geographers and Geographers…………….……..… 43 Robert Beverley…………………………………………………… 43 George Washington……………………………………………….. 47 Thomas Jefferson………………………………………………….. 53 Education in Colonial Virginia……………………………………………. 64 School Geography…………………………………………………………. 71 The Geographical Growth of Colonial Virginia…………………………… 81 Chapter 3 – From Independence to Civil War..…………………………………… 89 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the North West Ordinance………………………………………….………………… 91 Transportation Geography………………………………………………… 97 The American Prime Meridian and East Coast Surveys………………….. 104 European Influence on Virginia Geography……………….……………… 107 Matthew Fontaine Maury…………………………………………………. 117 Geography Education……………………………………………………… 122 School Geography…………………………………………………….…… 128 Virginia School Geography……………………………………………….. 135 ii Chapter 4 – From Civil War to 1900..……………………………………………... 145 The Virginia Dynasty of Presidents Continues………………………….… 152 Territorial Retrocession of Washington, DC………………………. 156 Texas and Florida Annexation………………………………….…. 159 Civil War Cartography…………………………………………………..… 162 Robert E Lee……………………………………………………..… 162 Jedediah Hotchkiss……………………………………………….... 167 Creation of West Virginia……………………………………………….… 173 Transportation Geography……………………………………………….… 176 Post-war Geographers and Geographies in Virginia………………………. 179 Maury’s Physical Survey of Virginia………….….……………….. 179 Jackson, Lee, and Hotchkiss……………………………………….. 183 Public Schooling comes to Virginia……………………………………….. 185 Post-War Geography Texts……………………………………………...… 191 School Geography…………………………………………………………. 199 School Reform……………………………………………………………... 204 The Influence of Darwin…………………………………………………... 207 The State of Post-War Virginia………………………………………….… 211 Chapter 5 – The Twentieth Century………..……………………………………… 217 Jean Gottmann…………………………………………………………….. 221 Virginia, 1900 to Mid-Century……………………………………………. 224 Transportation Geography………………………………………………… 232 Education in Virginia……………………………………………………… 237 School Reform…………………………………………………………….. 242 Isaiah Bowman………………………………………………….…. 244 Academic and School Geography, 1900-1940……………………………. 246 Woodrow Wilson……………………………………………….…………. 259 Richard E Byrd……………………………………………………….…… 264 The State of Academic Geography after 1945……………….……………. 268 Demographic Growth of Virginia…………………………….…………… 273 Post-War Education in Virginia…………………………………………… 276 Post-War Geography Education in Virginia………………………………. 278 The State of Academic Geography at the end of the century……………... 283 Geography in Virginia, 1945 to present…………………………………… 288 Chapter 6 – Some Conclusions……………………………………………………. 292 Appendix………..………………………………………………………………….. 317 Bibliography…..…………………………………………………………………… 333 iii List of Tables Table Page 1. Virginia Population Statistics…………………………….…….…………....... 317 2. Virginia Timeline……………………………………………………………… 318 iv List of Figures Figure Page 1. Mount Rogers roadway marker………………………………………….… 14 2. Geographic Regions of Virginia…………………………………………... 25 3. Virginia maps……………………………………………………………… 26 4. John Smith’s Map of Virginia …………………….………….………….… 28 5. John Farrer’s Map of Virginia…………………………………………...… 31 6. Thomas Davies paintings………………….……………………………..… 39 7. William Roberts, “Natural Bridge”………………………………………... 40 8. William Sullivan, “Aerial View of Orange County”…………………….… 41 9. George Washington…………………………………………………….….. 48 10. George Washington family with globe……………………………………. 50 11. Washington, DC roadway marker…………….………………….……….. 52 12. Example of Washington survey……………………………………………. 52 13. Thomas Jefferson………………………………………………………….. 54 14. Joshua Fry-Peter Jefferson Map of Virginia………………………………. 58 15. Cover of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia………………………. 60 16. Indian School roadway marker……………………………………………. 67 17. Virginia Gazette article……………………..………..……………………. 74 18. Virginia Gazette advertisements….………………………………….……. 75 19. Knights of the Golden Horseshoe roadway marker……………………….. 83 20. Donelson’s Indian Line roadway marker……………………………….…. 83 21. Map of Expansion of settlement in Virginia………………………………. 85 22. Atlas of the United States, 1795-1800 map of Virginia…………………… 88 23. Map of Louisiana Purchase and Exploration, 1804-1807………………… 93 24. James Madison……………………………………………………………. 113 25. James Monroe…………………………………………………………….. 114 26. Jedediah Morse family……………………………………………………. 125 27. William Henry Harrison…………………………………………………… 153 28. John Tyler………………………………………………………………….. 154 29. Zachary Taylor……………………………………………………………. 155 30. Artemas C Harmon’s map of Washington, DC…………………………… 157 31. Robert E Lee………………………………………………………………. 163 32. Jedediah Hotchkiss………………………………………………………… 168 33. J.F. Gilmer’s Map of Richmond and Petersburg………………………….. 170 34. Jedediah Hotchkiss’ Map of the Shenandoah Valley……………………… 171 35. Jedediah Hotchkiss’s Map of Manassas…………………………………… 171 v 36. Maury School roadway marker……………………………………………. 181 37. William Henry Ruffner roadway marker……………..…………………… 189 38. Cover of Cornell’s Primary Geography…………………………………… 193 39. The “Memory’s Aid” in Cornell’s Primary Geography…………………… 194 40. Natural Bridge in Fry’s Home Geography…………….…………………… 196 41. “Virginia the Beckoning Land” travel brochure………………………....... 220 42. Movement of the Center of Population Gravity in the US………….….….. 226 43. Geographical Center of Virginia roadway marker………….…...………… 227 44. Map of Geographical Center of Virginia………………………………….. 227 45. Cover of Maury’s Manual of Geography..................................................... 229 46. Report card………………………………………………………………… 230 47. Early Virginia roads……………………………………………………….. 234 48. From Indian path to highway roadway marker……………………………. 234 49. Evolution of a Virginia roadway………………………………………….. 235 50. Old Fairfax High School roadway marker………………………………… 240 51. Woodville School…………………………………………………………. 240 52. Woodrow Wilson family………………………………………………….. 260 53. The Big Four at Versailles………………………………………………… 260 54. Richard E Byrd commemorative stamps………………………………….. 267 55. Richard E Byrd roadway marker………………………………………….. 267 56. Time Magazine cover of Isaiah Bowman…………………………..…….. 271 57. Franklin D Roosevelt with map…………………………………………… 281 58. The evolution of Tyson’s Corner……………………………. …………… 289 59. Virginia motto…………………….……………………………………….. 293 60. Jean Gottmann’s Megalopolis …………………………………………….. 295 61. Tobacco Corded and Ready for Curing…………..……………………….. 297 62. Map of tobacco-growing counties in Virginia………….………...……….. 297 63. Satellite imagery of Loudoun County……………….…………….………. 300 64. Map of Population Distribution of Ethnicities in Virginia……….……….. 307 65. Memorial Bridge……………………………………….………………….. 309 66. 1929 National Geographic map of Virginia……………………………….. 310 67. Cover of May 2007 National Geographic…………………………………. 312 68. “Virginia is for Lovers” sticker and postcard of Virginia…………………. 316 vi Abstract GEOGRAPHY IN VIRGINIA: FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF GEOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION IN THE OLD DOMINION Monika M. Bachmann, D.A. George Mason University, 2009 Dissertation Director: Dr. Allan Falconer This paper examines the four-hundred year history of geography and geography education in Virginia. As the site of the oldest permanent English settlement in North America, the home of many of America’s most important founding fathers and early presidents, and location of many pivotal military battles of the Revolution and Civil War, Virginia was until the mid-nineteenth century one of America’s leading colonies and states. It has an unparalleled and richly documented history of geographic scholarship and thought, producing a reputable geographic study written in each century since its founding in 1607. From Robert Smith in the seventeenth century, through Robert Beverly and Thomas Jefferson in the eighteenth, Matthew Fontaine Maury in the nineteenth, to Jean Gottmann in the twentieth, the Old Dominion provides the backdrop for a valuable geographic heritage that reflects the geographic “Weltanschauung” (world view) of not just Virginia, but the greater nation. Sometimes as a follower, but more often – and more recently again – as a leader, Virginia’s geographically-informed Weltanschauung and the discipline’s fortunes waxed and waned with the flow of people, societal norms, territorial expansion and wars, and technology. The history of geography’s evolution in the Old Dominion is traced chronologically in two ways: the formal geographic studies by Smith, Beverly, Jefferson, Maury, and
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