Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 1869 – 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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Step back in time with Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 1869, 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: Bird's eye view of the city of Pleasant Hill, Cass Co., Missouri 1869
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Pleasant Hill, Missouri, 1869
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Pleasant Hill, Missouri, in 1869 was a farming town in Cass County, shaped above all by the Shaker community that had settled on the hill decades earlier. The Shakers, a celibate religious society, were known across the region for their chairs and furniture, garden seeds, and brooms, and their orderly village of workshops, dwellings, and meeting spaces set a pattern that outsiders often admired. The town was still recovering from the Civil War, when fighting came through in April 1864 during a battle near the village. Residents would have known Pleasant Hill by its mix of Shaker industry, local stores, and the farms and churches of the surrounding county, all of which the street-by-street survey recorded with care.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,560 × 4,144 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Pleasant Hill, Cass Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489400 |
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