John Smith Revisited

A Digital Historical Geography of Vienna, Maryland: The Digitization of John Smith’s 1612 Map of the Chesapeake Bay and Thomas Ennals’ 1706 Map of “Vienna Towne”

Michael S. Scott, PhD
Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative Salisbury University November 1, 2005

The report attached below describes the goal, the method, and the results of a digitizing project undertaken in the Summer of 2004 by the staff of the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative at Salisbury University. The desired result of this project, funded by the Town of Vienna, Maryland, was to scientifically compare the location of the town of Vienna with the mapped depiction of the Nanticoke River and its associated Native American villages as recorded by John Smith in 1612 and to compare Thomas Ennalls’ 1706 plat map of “Vienna Towne” with the layout of the current Town of Vienna.