Old Map of SoHo, NYC, 1868 by John Bute Holmes - Manhattan Farmland Survey, Broadway, Bleeker, Houston St turkish empire Sardinia is the second-largest island

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and is located to the west of mainland Italy

Christ's College and Peterhouse (then called St Peters House)

Notre Dame is here of course

the populations of towns

or MTA as it's known today

Old Map of SoHo, NYC, 1868 by John Bute Holmes - Manhattan Farmland Survey, Broadway, Bleeker, Houston St turkish empire Sardinia is the second-largest islandThis wonderful old map of New York's SoHo neighbourhood was originally published in 1868. It was created by John Bute Holmes. This map covers what is now known as SoHo (or South of Houston). But, if that wasn't interesting enough, the map also shows the farmland that SoHo was built upon. It is a little hard to believe today, but at the start of the 19th century most of Manhattan was still farmland. Here, the map shows that SoHo used to be West Bayard