Merril, Wisconsin, 1883 – 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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A window into the past: Merril, Wisconsin, 1883, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Merril, Wisconsin, 1883
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Merrill, in north-central Wisconsin, was a young lumber town in 1883, built along the Wisconsin River where logs cut in the surrounding pine forests were floated downstream to sawmills. The railroad had arrived only a few years earlier, carrying lumber out and bringing in settlers, supplies, and the mill workers and loggers who kept the town growing. Named for a railroad official, Merrill was becoming the center of Lincoln County, so its courthouse, churches, stores, and schools mattered to families who had come north to work the woods and clear farmland on the edges of town. Residents of the period would have known Merrill first as a sawmill town, a place where the river, the rail line, and the winter logging season set the rhythm of daily life.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Merril, Wisconsin, drawn in 1883. 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--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 9,888 × 4,296 px · prints to 33 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491397 |
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