Athens, Ohio, 1875 – 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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This rare antique map captures Athens, Ohio, 1875 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Athens, Ohio, 1875
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Athens, Ohio, in 1875 was a river town of the Hocking Valley, a county seat whose fortunes rested on the coal, iron, and farm trade that moved along the Hocking River and the rail lines reaching into the hills around it. Ohio University, chartered in 1804 and one of the oldest public universities in the Northwest Territory, gave the town a second identity as a college community, and its students, professors, and church congregations shaped daily life alongside the merchants and mill workers. Residents of the period would have known Athens for this mix of academic life and valley commerce, with brick business blocks along the main streets and frame houses climbing the slopes above the river. The street-by-street detail in this 1875 view records a town still growing after the Civil War, when railroads were beginning to change how goods and people reached the region.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Athens, Ohio, drawn in 1875. 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 |
| Original scan | 4,104 × 4,728 px · prints to 14 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490258 |
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