Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, 1906 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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: Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, 1906, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Mountain Lake Park, Garrett Co., Maryland 1906
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Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, 1906
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Mountain Lake Park, in Garrett County in western Maryland, was a summer resort in 1906, shaped by the cool air of the Allegheny Plateau and by the railroad that carried visitors up from Baltimore and Washington. The Mountain Lake Park Association had founded the community in the early 1880s as a Chautauqua-style assembly, offering lectures, religious services, music, and recreation around a small lake. Families spent their summers in cottages and boarding houses, while the wider county relied on timber, farming, and coal that moved along the same rail lines. By the early 1900s the resort drew church groups, vacationers, and seasonal residents who came for the season rather than to settle. Its appeal rested on that rail connection, which made a mountain retreat reachable from the cities.
| Created / published | 1906 |
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| Creator | mountain lake park association of garrett county, fowler & kelly |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, drawn in 1906. 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--Maryland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,504 × 7,088 px · prints to 32 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Mountain Lake Park, Garrett Co., Maryland 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489111 |
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