Forest City, Pennsylvania, 1889 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Forest City, Pennsylvania, 1889, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Forest City, Susquehanna County, Pa. 1889
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Forest City, Pennsylvania, 1889
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Forest City, in Susquehanna County in northeastern Pennsylvania, was a young coal town in 1889, about a decade after it became an incorporated borough in 1878. Its economy rested on anthracite mining and the crews, company offices, and supply trade that grew up around the pits. Residents of the period measured their town by its shafts, its rail connections to the wider anthracite trade, and the steady arrival of miners and their families. That same spring, the Johnstown flood in western Pennsylvania had drawn statewide attention to industrial communities and their vulnerability, and people in towns like this one followed the news closely.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,288 × 5,536 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Forest City, Susquehanna County, Pa. 1889 |
| Reference | PA-ForestCity-1889 |
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