Castleton, Vermont, 1889 – Antique Wall Map
(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: Castleton, Vermont, 1889, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Castleton, Vt. 1889
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Castleton, Vermont, 1889
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Castleton, Vermont, in 1889 was a village on Otter Creek in Rutland County, where farming, dairying, and sheep raising formed the base of local life. Water power from the creek drove mills along its banks, and goods moved along the rail line that ran through the valley toward Rutland and Bennington. The normal school near the village gave Castleton a civic identity that many neighboring towns lacked, since it trained teachers for the state's rural schoolrooms. Residents also lived close to the Revolutionary past, as the Hubbardton battlefield lay a few miles to the west. This map records the churches, storefronts, and house lots that made up the village as its residents knew it.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Castleton, Vermont, drawn in 1889. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,808 × 5,136 px · prints to 26 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Castleton, Vt. 1889 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491234 |
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