North Fork Clark, West Virginia, 1911 – 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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Step back in time with North Fork Clark, West Virginia, 1911, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of North Fork and town of Clark, West Virginia 1911
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North Fork Clark, West Virginia, 1911
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North Fork, a small mountain community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, appears on this 1911 bird's-eye view at a time when farming and timber shaped local life. Cattle, hay, and grain from the valley farms supported most families, while lumber companies were pushing into the surrounding ridges of hardwood and spruce in the years around 1910. West Virginia had been a state only since 1863, and counties like Pendleton still ran on local courts, church congregations, and general stores where families traded produce for goods. Residents would have known the town by its valley roads, its mills and blacksmith shops, and its schoolhouse and churches. Places this size left few written records, so the street-by-street survey now serves as one of the fullest pictures of daily life there.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of North Fork Clark, West Virginia, drawn in 1911. 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 | 6,128 × 3,664 px · prints to 20 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of North Fork and town of Clark, West Virginia 1911 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491502 |
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