West Randolph, Vermont, 1886 – 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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West Randolph, Vermont, 1886 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: West Randolph, Vt. 1886
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West Randolph, Vermont, 1886
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West Randolph, Vermont, in 1886 was a small village in the hills of Orange County, where the local economy rested on dairy and hay farming. The railroad along the White River valley gave farmers a way to ship milk, butter, cheese, and livestock to larger markets, and it brought mail, freight, and travelers into a community that otherwise depended on wagon roads. Like much of rural Vermont in these years, the population had been drifting down since the Civil War, as young men left hill farms for mill towns in New England or for farms in the Midwest. Churches, a village center, and a handful of stores and shops formed the civic and social life that residents knew their town by. The streets and house lots shown here capture that settled hill-country village at a moment when its future was already uncertain.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of West Randolph, Vermont, drawn in 1886. 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 | 7,920 × 5,568 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | West Randolph, Vt. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491246 |
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