Green Cove Springs, Florida, 1885 – Antique Map Print
(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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Green Cove Springs, Florida, 1885 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Green Cove Springs, county seat of Clay County, Florida. 1885
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Green Cove Springs, Florida, 1885
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Green Cove Springs, Florida, in 1885 was a small river town on the western bank of the St. Johns River, built around a sulphur spring whose warm water drew invalids and winter visitors from the North. Steamboats running between Jacksonville and points upriver brought travelers, mail, and freight to its landing, and the town's shops and boarding houses depended heavily on the seasonal crowds. Surrounding farms and groves produced oranges, vegetables, and timber, and the river carried much of that output to market. Residents of the period would have known the town first as a health resort and river landing, and the street-by-street detail in this view shows how closely the hotels, wharves, and spring facilities sat against the water.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Green Cove Springs, Florida, drawn in 1885. 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--Florida |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,432 × 5,968 px · prints to 28 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Green Cove Springs, county seat of Clay County, Florida. 1885 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488249 |
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