Anoka, Minnesota, 1869 – 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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Step back in time with Anoka, Minnesota, 1869, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Anoka, Anoka County, Minnesota 1869
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Anoka, Minnesota, 1869
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Anoka, Minnesota, sat where the Rum River meets the Mississippi, about twenty miles northwest of Minneapolis, and in 1869 it was a lumber and milling town. Sawmills and flour mills drew power from the Rum's falls, and logs cut in the northern pine country floated downriver to be sawn into boards for the growing settlements to the south. The Mississippi carried steamboat traffic past the town, and the arrival of rail service in the region was opening new routes for farm produce and goods. Anoka was then a young community of merchants, mill hands, and farm families, many of them recent arrivals from New England, New York, and northern Europe. Residents would have known it chiefly as a river town whose fortunes rose and fell with the lumber trade and the seasonal flow of the water.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,992 × 5,728 px · prints to 23 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Anoka, Anoka County, Minnesota 1869 |
| Reference | MN-Anoka-1869 |
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