South Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1900 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: South Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1900, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Property of the South Rocky Mount Land Co. at South Rocky Mount, N.C.
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South Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1900
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South Rocky Mount, on the south bank of the Tar River in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, was in 1900 a railroad and farm-trade town that grew up around the Wilmington and Weldon line. Tobacco and cotton moved through its warehouses and depots, and the rail connections tied the region's farmers to markets farther north and south. The town had only recently been separated from the larger Rocky Mount across the river, so its residents still thought of their streets, churches and business blocks as a community of their own. A street-by-street survey like this one recorded which buildings stood at the turn of the century, showing the rail yards, the commercial frontage and the houses that housed the workers who kept the town running.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of South Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 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--North Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,176 × 4,616 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Property of the South Rocky Mount Land Co. at South Rocky Mount, N.C. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489533 |
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