Wilmington, Vermont, 1891 – 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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This antique map of Wilmington, Vermont, 1891 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Wilmington, Vt
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Wilmington, Vermont, 1891
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Wilmington, Vermont, in 1891 was a village in the Deerfield River valley of Windham County, where most families depended on farming, dairying, and the small mills and shops that used the river's fall. Hill pastures that had once carried large flocks of sheep were increasingly given over to dairy herds, and farm goods such as milk, butter, and lumber moved out by wagon to markets beyond the valley. Civic life revolved around the churches, the schools, and the annual town meeting, where voters settled matters of roads, taxes, and public money each spring. Residents would have known their village as a close-knit hill town where most people were acquainted with one another's barns and business, and where the seasons and the river still set the pace of daily work.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wilmington, Vermont, drawn in 1891. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,456 × 5,344 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wilmington, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491247 |
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