Norwalk, Ohio, 1870 – 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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Norwalk, Ohio, 1870 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio 1870
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Norwalk, Ohio, 1870
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Norwalk, the seat of Huron County in north central Ohio, was in 1870 a farm trade town whose fortunes rested on the grain, livestock, and produce that moved out of the surrounding countryside. Its name came from Norwalk, Connecticut, and its early settlers were largely people compensated with land in the Firelands, a tract granted to Connecticut families whose property had been burned during British raids in the Revolution. By the time this view was drawn, rail lines had strengthened the town's role as a shipping point, and its streets, churches, schools, and commercial blocks were the everyday world of several thousand residents. The county's civic life of courthouse business, newspapers, and town councils gave Norwalk its local identity, and its residents would have known the town first as a place of home and market.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | merchant's lithographing company, ruger & stoner, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Norwalk, Ohio, drawn in 1870. 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--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,312 × 6,288 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490284 |
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