Birds eye view of Abingdon, Virginia, 1915 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Birds eye view of Abingdon, Virginia, 1915 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Abingdon, Va.
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Birds eye view of Abingdon, Virginia, 1915
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Abingdon, the county seat of Washington County in the Southwest Virginia highlands, was already more than a century old in 1915, having been settled in the 1770s along the Great Valley Road. Its economy rested on farming, livestock, and trade in the surrounding valley, with the town serving as a market and courthouse center for farm families. Two schools shaped its civic and social life: Martha Washington College, a women's college, and Stonewall Jackson Institute, which drew students from across the region. Rail service, which had reached the town in the 1850s, linked it to larger markets, though the bigger industrial growth of the early twentieth century was centered further west in towns like Bristol. This aerial view shows a small town still defined by its courthouse, its college campus, and the church spires and residential streets that surrounded them.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | g.n. wertz studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,248 × 1,087 px · prints to 17 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Abingdon, Va. |
| Reference | VA 1915 Birds eye view of Abingdon |
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