Clarksville, Tennessee, 1870 – 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: Clarksville, Tennessee, 1870, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee 1870
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Clarksville, Tennessee, 1870
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Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1870 was a river town on the Cumberland and the seat of Montgomery County, where the economy rested largely on tobacco grown in the surrounding countryside and sold through local warehouses and the riverfront. The town had been occupied by Union troops in early 1862, after the fall of nearby Fort Donelson, and the years of war and Reconstruction that followed left residents rebuilding their commercial district and reestablishing county government. Steamboat landings and wagon roads brought farm produce into town, and the courthouse square was the center of buying, selling, and public business. The town's residents would have known it first as a tobacco market on the river, a place where the trade in leaf and the movement of cargo shaped daily life.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | merchant's lithographing company, ruger & stoner, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Clarksville, Tennessee, drawn in 1870. 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--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,688 × 7,008 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490887 |
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