Who the heck was Augustine Herman?

(Cecil Observer) Many of us drive up and down Augustine Herman Highway (Route 213) on a daily basis without really knowing anything about the Bohemian adventurer who played a major role in early Cecil County history.
Augustine Herman was born in Prague or “Bohemia” about 1605, and fought in the Thirty Years War before arriving in the New World around 1629. Existing records portray a well-educated surveyor and mapmaker, fluent in several languages, and he became a key player in the early settlement of Manhattan under Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
On a trip through what was then the Chesapeake Bay wilderness, he was struck by the area’s natural beauty — and by the total lack of accurate maps. Continued

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