Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, 1895 – Antique Map Print
(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 Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, 1895. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania
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Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, 1895
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Mifflintown, the seat of Juniata County in central Pennsylvania, sat on the Juniata River in 1895, a small market town whose economy rested on farming, local merchants, and the shipping and rail links that tied the Juniata Valley to larger markets. The county courthouse and its square anchored civic life, where court days, elections, and business drew farmers in from the surrounding townships. Like many river towns of the period, Mifflintown depended on steady rail connections for grain, lumber, and goods, and its residents would have known it chiefly as a quiet county center with close ties to the valley's farm families. The bird's-eye view of 1895 shows the town laid out in its streets, churches, and riverfront, a compact community at a time when the broader region was still shaped by agriculture and small-scale industry.
| Created / published | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moyer, james b., fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,656 × 3,632 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania |
| Reference | PA-Mifflintown-1895 |
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