Fort Collins, Colorado, 1865 – 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: Fort Collins, Colorado, 1865, 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: [Fort Collins, Colorado
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Fort Collins, Colorado, 1865
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Fort Collins in 1865 was a young settlement, not yet a decade old, that had grown up around Camp Collins, an army post established in 1864 on the Cache la Poudre River to protect settlers and travelers on the road west. Residents depended on the river, and irrigation ditches carried its water onto fields where farmers raised grain, hay and vegetables for sale to the mining camps in the mountains. The Civil War had ended only months earlier, and Colorado was still a territory governed from Denver, so local people were largely building their town's institutions from the ground up. The town's future seemed to rest on water, farming and the traffic moving through the valley, and the streets and homesteads shown here reflect a community still small enough to be recorded building by building.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Creator | houghton, merritt dana |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fort Collins, Colorado, drawn in 1865. 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--Colorado |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 2,704 × 1,724 px · prints to 9 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Fort Collins, Colorado |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488062 |
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