Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 1890 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 1890, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Honesdale, Pennsylvania 1890
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Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 1890
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Honesdale, the county seat of Wayne County in northeastern Pennsylvania, sat in 1890 at the head of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, where coal from the Lackawanna fields was loaded for the trip south to New York. The town had been the terminus of the canal's gravity railroad since the late 1820s, and in 1829 the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive built for American rails, was tested on that line near town. By the 1890s the railroad had made Honesdale a shipping and market center for the surrounding farms and a stop for travelers heading into the Poconos. Its residents still took pride in that early engineering history, and the map's street grid and rows of frame houses along the Dyberry Creek show a county seat that was growing steadily around its courthouse and rail yards.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1890. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,560 × 5,824 px · prints to 35 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Honesdale, Pennsylvania 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490559 |
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