Enfield, Connecticut, 1908 – 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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Enfield, Connecticut, 1908 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: [Bird's-eye view of Thompsonville (now Enfield), Connecticut]
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Enfield, Connecticut, 1908
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Enfield, Connecticut, sat along the Connecticut River in Hartford County in 1908, and its economy rested largely on the industrial villages within its borders. Thompsonville, on the river, was home to a large carpet manufactory, while Hazardville was known for the Hazard Powder Company, whose gunpowder works had shaped the village since the 1830s. Rail lines and the river carried raw materials and finished goods out of the town, and the Enfield Canal, opened in the late 1820s to bypass rapids near Windsor Locks, had long been part of the local transportation network. Residents of the period would have known Enfield first by these mills and villages, each with its own churches, schools and stores, rather than as a single downtown.
| Created / published | 1908 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Enfield, Connecticut, drawn in 1908. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,206 × 2,764 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's-eye view of Thompsonville (now Enfield), Connecticut] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488128 |
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