Moundsville, West Virginia, 1899 – 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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Step back in time with Moundsville, West Virginia, 1899, 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: Moundsville, West Virginia 1899
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Moundsville, West Virginia, 1899
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Moundsville, the seat of Marshall County on the Ohio River in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, was a river town in 1899 whose life revolved around the water, the surrounding coal country, and the rail lines that carried goods in and out. Residents would have known the town first for Grave Creek Mound, a large earthen burial mound raised by earlier Native peoples long before European settlement, which stood as a local landmark and point of civic pride. The West Virginia State Penitentiary, with its castle-like stone walls on the edge of town, was the other institution that drew outside attention, and it shaped local employment and reputation. The 1899 view captures a community of mills, churches, and residential streets set between the river and the hills, at a time when small industrial towns along the Ohio were growing steadily.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Moundsville, West Virginia, drawn in 1899. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,080 × 6,208 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Moundsville, West Virginia 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491500 |
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