Warrensburg, Missouri, 1869 – 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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This antique map of Warrensburg, Missouri, 1869 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Warrensburg, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869
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Warrensburg, Missouri, 1869
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Warrensburg, the seat of Johnson County in west-central Missouri, was a small farm town in 1869, still recovering from the Civil War years that had torn through the region with raids, guerrilla violence, and disrupted farms. Its economy rested on corn, livestock, and hemp grown on the surrounding prairie and timberland, and the courthouse square served as the center of trade, county business, and public life. Residents in 1869 would have known the town as a county market and a stop on the growing network of rail and road routes that linked the farms of central Missouri to larger markets. The decade after the war was a time of rebuilding, with new churches, stores, and homes going up around the square as families tried to restore what had been lost.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Warrensburg, Missouri, drawn in 1869. 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--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,752 × 5,248 px · prints to 23 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Warrensburg, Johnson Co., Missouri 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489421 |
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