Every Lake
Virginia
Four provinces on one board — Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge and the long Appalachian tail.
Virginia in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Virginia.
About Virginia
Virginia reads as a triangle with a tail. The Potomac makes the northern border, the Chesapeake breaks the eastern edge into the peninsulas the colonists called necks, and the far southwest runs out in a narrow point between Kentucky and Tennessee. Behind the Tidewater the fall line marks where the rivers drop and the cities grew — Richmond, Fredericksburg, Petersburg — then the Piedmont rolls west to the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah Valley. The board carries 95 counties and 38 independent cities, a system almost unique to Virginia, where a city belongs to no county at all.
Virginia ratified on June 25, 1788, tenth of the thirteen and the largest state in the new Union. Richmond has been the capital since 1780, when Jefferson pushed it inland from Williamsburg to put it out of reach of British raiding parties. What makes the map hang well is the scenery drawn along its spine: Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway picking up where it ends, I-81 running the whole valley, and I-64 crossing from the mountains to the sea at Hampton Roads.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 11 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
