Fair Haven, Vermont, 1886 – 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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This rare antique map captures Fair Haven, Vermont, 1886 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Fair Haven, Vt
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Fair Haven, Vermont, 1886
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Fair Haven, a village in Rutland County near the New York line, was in 1886 a community whose fortunes rested largely on slate. Quarrying and slate working drew workers to the area and shaped its streets, mills, and boarding houses. The Poultney River runs through the town, and its water and the nearby railroad links helped move stone and goods out of the valley. Residents of the period would have known Fair Haven as a quiet slate town on the Vermont border, where church, school, and lodge life centered on the village green. This bird's-eye view of the village, drawn by L. R. Burleigh, captures the layout of those streets in the years when the slate trade was still the town's main livelihood.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh, l. r. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fair Haven, Vermont, drawn in 1886. 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 | 7,608 × 4,208 px · prints to 25 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Fair Haven, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491236 |
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