Buckhannon, West Virginia, 1900 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Buckhannon, West Virginia, 1900. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Buckhannon, West Virginia 1900
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Buckhannon, West Virginia, 1900
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Buckhannon, the county seat of Upshur County in north-central West Virginia, was a small hill town in 1900, with its courthouse square and church steeples at the center of county life. The surrounding region drew its income mainly from farming, livestock, and the timber that was being cut from the surrounding hills, and merchants in town depended on the trade of farm families who came in on market days. Education gave the town a distinct character, since West Virginia Wesleyan College, a Methodist school chartered in 1890, had already become one of its best-known institutions. Residents of the period would have known Buckhannon as a quiet seat of county government and a college town, with the Buckhannon River running past its edges. This map records the streets, houses, and business blocks as they stood at the turn of the century.
| Created / published | 1900 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Buckhannon, West Virginia, drawn in 1900. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,216 × 4,544 px · prints to 24 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Buckhannon, West Virginia 1900 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491488 |
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