Philippi, West Virginia, 1861 – 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 rare antique map captures Philippi, West Virginia, 1861 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Town of Phillippi, Barbour County, West Virginia. 1861
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Philippi, West Virginia, 1861
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Philippi, the seat of Barbour County in northwestern Virginia, was a small river town in 1861, set along the Tygart Valley River in hill country where farming, timber, and local trade sustained most residents. Loyalties in the county were divided that spring as Virginia moved toward secession and many hill-country families looked north toward Union sentiment. A covered bridge crossed the Tygart at the town, and its courthouse and churches gave Philippi the civic life of a county seat. That summer, the town became the scene of the Battle of Philippi on June 3, 1861, a brief Union attack on Confederate troops often called the first land engagement of the Civil War. Residents who knew the place before that morning would have recognized nearly every street in the drawing.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pool, m. d. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Philippi, West Virginia, drawn in 1861. 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--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,712 × 6,592 px · prints to 32 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Town of Phillippi, Barbour County, West Virginia. 1861 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491505 |
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