VT Bellows Falls 1886 MAP – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of VT Bellows Falls 1886 MAP. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bellows Falls, Vt
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VT Bellows Falls 1886 MAP
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Bellows Falls, Vermont, appears here in a bird's-eye panoramic map from 1886, drawn by the Burleigh lithography firm, whose founder, Lucien R. Burleigh, made a specialty of these detailed town views. The Connecticut River drops through rapids at this point, and the village grew up around the falls as a center for mills, canal traffic, and rail connections in the late nineteenth century. Panoramic maps like this one were commissioned for local promotion as much as for navigation, so the streets, rail lines, and industrial buildings are drawn with a good deal of civic pride. Look closely at the river and the falls, which give the town its name and its reason for existing.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh litho, burleigh, l. r. (lucien r.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,260 × 2,604 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bellows Falls, Vt |
| Reference | VT-BellowsFalls-1886 |
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