Greely, Colorado, 1882 – 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 rare antique map captures Greely, Colorado, 1882 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Greely, Colorado, 1882
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Greeley, Colorado, in 1882 was an irrigated farming town of about a decade's standing, founded in 1870 by the Union Colony under the direction of Nathan Meeker and named for newspaper editor Horace Greeley. Its settlers depended on water diverted from the Cache la Poudre River, and canals made the surrounding plains productive for grain, vegetables, and cattle. The Denver Pacific Railroad, which reached the town in the early 1870s, linked its farm produce to markets to the south, and the colony's founding rules restricted saloons, giving the town a reputation for sobriety. Meeker himself had left the colony's leadership before his death in 1879, when he was killed in an uprising at the White River Ute agency in western Colorado, an event that shocked the state and drew national attention to the region's settlers.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greely, Colorado, drawn in 1882. 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 |
| Original scan | 7,584 × 5,008 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488065 |
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