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" ... this is a geography book hand drawn by a very promising student. It includes descriptions of astronomical geography, the Ptolemaic, Brahean and Copernican systems, comets, great circles, Equator, meridian, horizon, colures, Tropics, Polar Circles, zones, climates, latitude and longitude, a section titled America, and 19 maps of the states with a descriptive page for each. The maps are copied from the 1805 ed. of Carey's American Pocket Atlas, except for Ohio, which is from Arrowsmith and Lewis' Atlas, 1812, and Indiana, from an unknown source. The text is copied from Morse's Geography Made Easy, probably 1807, 11th ed., but certainly before the 12th ed. (which was changed substantially); the text describing the maps is original ... The penmanship is remarkable both in the execution of the maps and text ... At the bottom of the title page: Presented to her son T.A. Post - Feb 4th 1872. Emma Willard led the Middlebury Female Academy from 1807-9, see DAB."--David Rumsey Collection catalog.

A village located along the Seneca River, Seneca Falls was incorporated in 1831 and was soon linked to the Erie Canal by the Cayuga Seneca Canal. The women's suffrage movement was born in Seneca Falls when the first Women's Rights Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Seneca County and Seneca Falls were also part of the Underground Railroad, and prominent citizens such as Ansel Bascom and Henry Seymour worked with freedom seekers in the decades before the Civil War. The town's knitting mills produced socks for the army during the war, second only to New York City in production. Many famous people also came to Seneca Falls to rally around the town's causes, among them are Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Garrett Smith, and Susan B. Anthony.