The Orlando Ferguson Map
This is very interesting. To find the possible origins of this flat earth map, check this Map of Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Map of Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, SD
Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota
WHO IS ORLANDO FERGUSON?
Ferguson was born near Du Quoin, Illinois in 1846. He married in 1872 and moved to the Dakota Territory in the early 1880s, finally settling in Hot Springs, South Dakota in 1886. There, he ran a grocery store for a few years, and later built a hotel.
After the hotel was lost in a fire, he built a bath house around the Siloam Springs. While often referred to as "doctor", Ferguson was not a formal doctor or trained as such. The name came from the sick who visited the bath house.
In 2011, Ferguson was the subject of press attention after a copy of his 1893 flat earth map was donated to and accepted by the Library of Congress. The Fall River Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs also retains a slightly-incomplete copy.
Ferguson was born near Du Quoin, Illinois in 1846. He married in 1872 and moved to the Dakota Territory in the early 1880s, finally settling in Hot Springs, South Dakota in 1886. There, he ran a grocery store for a few years, and later built a hotel.
After the hotel was lost in a fire, he built a bath house around the Siloam Springs. While often referred to as "doctor", Ferguson was not a formal doctor or trained as such. The name came from the sick who visited the bath house.
In 2011, Ferguson was the subject of press attention after a copy of his 1893 flat earth map was donated to and accepted by the Library of Congress. The Fall River Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs also retains a slightly-incomplete copy.
Map of the square and stationary earth : four hundred passages in the Bible that condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and none sustain it ; this map is the Bible map of the world'
Title listed at Library of Congress.
Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011594831/
Alexander Gleason 'As It Is' Map of 1893
