A plan of the harbour of Halifax

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A somewhat detailed representation of Dartmouth by Charles Morris showing what appears to be four blockhouses and what is perhaps the connecting palisade. Mills are also noted along with a windmill just beyond the mill stream, near what would be Maitland Street today.


“A plan of the harbour of Halifax / by Charles Morris, chf. surveyr.”, Morris, Charles. 1751. [Halifax?] https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15826742

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