Greenville, Texas, 1886 – 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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This antique map of Greenville, Texas, 1886 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Greenville, Tex., county seat of Hunt County 1886
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Greenville, Texas, 1886
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Greenville, the seat of Hunt County in northeast Texas, was a cotton town in 1886, and the railroad was central to its growth. The Texas and St. Louis line had reached it in the early 1870s, linking farmers around the courthouse square to markets farther north. Cotton bales, gins, and warehouses kept goods moving through town, while lawyers, merchants, and county officials conducted business around the square. Residents would have known Greenville as the commercial center for the surrounding prairie farms. This view captures a county seat that had grown from a frontier outpost into a busy market town within a generation.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greenville, Texas, drawn in 1886. 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--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,136 × 5,864 px · prints to 27 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Greenville, Tex., county seat of Hunt County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490921 |
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