Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1897 – 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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A window into the past: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1897, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Uniontown, the Fayette County seat in southwestern Pennsylvania, sat in 1897 at the heart of the Connellsville coke region, where coal was baked into coke for the iron and steel furnaces farther north. Coke ovens, coal mines, and the railroads that hauled their output set the town's pace of work and growth, drawing laborers from many countries to the surrounding hills. The old National Road, a federally funded highway built in the early 1800s, still ran through town as its main street, a reminder of the wagon route that once crossed the Alleghenies. Courthouse business, shops, and churches clustered around the public square, and in a county so dependent on heavy industry, a strike or a slow season at the mines was felt in nearly every household.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,928 × 6,464 px · prints to 30 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490669 |
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