Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1898 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1898, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Clarksburg, West Virginia 1898
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Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1898
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Clarksburg, the Harrison County seat in north-central West Virginia, stood on the West Fork River in 1898 and was the largest town in its part of the state. The 1890s brought an industrial push to the region, with coal, timber, glassmaking, and the natural gas and oil fields drawing investment and new workers into the valley. Residents also knew the town as the birthplace of Confederate general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, whose boyhood home was a point of local pride. This 1898 view records the town's streets, churches, commercial blocks, and houses at the moment it was growing beyond its old river-bottom core.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Clarksburg, West Virginia, drawn in 1898. 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 | 8,656 × 6,352 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Clarksburg, West Virginia 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491491 |
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