Circleville, Ohio, 1876 – 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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Circleville, Ohio, 1876 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio 1876
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Circleville, Ohio, 1876
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Circleville, the seat of Pickaway County in south-central Ohio, was laid out in 1810 around a round courthouse square, and by 1876 that unusual ring of streets still shaped the town. The surrounding Scioto Valley was rich farmland, so corn, wheat, livestock and hogs drove local commerce, with grain and produce moving through town warehouses and along the rail lines. In 1876, the nation was marking its centennial, and Circleville residents, like many small Ohio towns, took pride in their churches, schools, and courthouse square as the civic center of the county. The map shows that ring of streets and the town's commercial blocks as they stood in the nation's centennial year.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | krebs lithographing company, cincinnati, stoner, j. j., ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Circleville, Ohio, drawn in 1876. 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 | 7,904 × 6,432 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490267 |
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