Honey Grove, Texas, 1885 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Honey Grove, Texas, 1885, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Honey Grove, Tex. Fannin County 1886
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Honey Grove, Texas, 1885
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Honey Grove, the seat of a farming district in Fannin County in northeast Texas, was a railroad and cotton trading town in 1885. The rail line that reached the town in the early 1870s gave local farmers a way to ship their crops to larger markets. Gins, grain dealers, and merchants built their businesses around that trade, and the surrounding fields set the rhythm of the year. Churches, schools, and stores around the central square shaped daily civic and social life, and residents would have known the town as a busy stop for farm families coming in to trade. Its fortunes still rose and fell with the weather and the price of cotton.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Honey Grove, Texas, drawn in 1885. 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--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,872 × 5,288 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Honey Grove, Tex. Fannin County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490922 |
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