Higganum, Connecticut, 1881 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Higganum, Connecticut, 1881. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Higganum, Connecticut 1881
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Higganum, Connecticut, 1881
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In 1881, Higganum was a mill village in the town of Haddam, on the east side of the Connecticut River in Middlesex County. Its economy rested on the Higganum River, whose falls powered grist and sawmills, and on surrounding farms that supplied produce and dairy goods to river towns. Like much of the Connecticut Valley, Higganum drew part of its livelihood from river traffic and the growing rail network that linked small manufacturing villages to Hartford and New Haven. Residents would have known the place for its quiet mill-pond setting, its church and village green, and the steady work of its shops and farms. The street-by-street detail in this 1881 view records a community still shaped by water power before the larger industrial changes of the coming decades.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Higganum, Connecticut, drawn in 1881. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,848 × 6,448 px · prints to 23 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Higganum, Connecticut 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488130 |
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