Grafton, 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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A window into the past: Grafton, West Virginia, 1898, 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: Grafton, West Virginia 1898
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Grafton, West Virginia, 1898
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Grafton, the seat of Taylor County in north-central West Virginia, lay on the Tygart Valley River in 1898, and its river position made it a natural crossroads for the region. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had made the town one of its most important division points, and the company's shops and yards employed a large share of the men who lived there. The surrounding hills supplied timber and coal, and rail lines carried those materials to markets farther east and west. Residents knew Grafton first as a railroad town, where the whistles of engines and the clang of shop work set the rhythm of daily life. A decade later, the town gained a lasting place in American memory when Anna Jarvis held an early Mother's Day observance there in 1908.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Creator | downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), fowler & downs |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Grafton, 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 | 8,832 × 6,432 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Grafton, West Virginia 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491495 |
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