Rockville, Connecticut, 1877 – 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 Rockville, Connecticut, 1877 in remarkable 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: View of Rockville, Conn. 1877
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Rockville, Connecticut, 1877
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Rockville, in the town of Vernon in north-central Connecticut, was in 1877 a mill village built around the Hockanum River, where water power drove woolen and flannel works that gave the place its economic life. Mill owners and managers lived in the streets nearest the factories, while the workers, many of them recent immigrants from Ireland and French Canada, lived in tenements and boarding houses close by. The town's churches, schools, stores and banks clustered along its main streets, and its residents knew Rockville first as a manufacturing center in the Hockanum Valley. A bird's-eye view drawn that year preserves the factory yards, dams and rows of housing as they stood at the close of the 1870s, before later decades brought new mills, new workers and further change.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | j. knauber & co, o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Rockville, Connecticut, drawn in 1877. 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 | 8,688 × 6,912 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Rockville, Conn. 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488149 |
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