Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 1897 – 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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Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 1897 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: Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania 1897
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Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 1897
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Canonsburg, the seat of Washington County's borough life in southwestern Pennsylvania, stood in 1897 within easy reach of Pittsburgh's mills and mines, and much of the local economy rested on coal and the trade moving along the Chartiers Creek valley. The town's older college, Jefferson, had already merged with Washington College across the county in 1865, so its campus was no longer the center of local learning, yet schooling, churches and fraternal lodges still shaped daily routines on its streets. Residents in 1897 would have known Canonsburg as a quiet county borough where miners, merchants and farm families crossed paths on Main Street. This view records its houses, churches and commercial blocks at the close of the nineteenth century, a period when Washington County was tied more closely than ever to the industrial growth of the Pittsburgh region.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1897. 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--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,864 × 5,512 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490509 |
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