Morrisville, Vermont, 1889 – 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: Morrisville, Vermont, 1889, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Morrisville, Vt
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Morrisville, Vermont, 1889
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Morrisville, in the Lamoille River valley of north-central Vermont, was a small farm-trade village in 1889, serving the dairy and hill farms of Lamoille County. Its economy rested on dairying, sheep and mixed farming, with waterpower from the Lamoille River supporting mills and small shops along the village streets. The rail line running up the valley tied the village to markets in St. Johnsbury and beyond, while the state's population was then slowly drifting west and into the cities, a trend that weighed on towns like this one. Residents in 1889 knew Morrisville as a county-seat-region trading center, a place of churches, schools and village commerce where the seasons set the pace of work. The town's street layout and the scattered mill and farm buildings it shows are a record of that rural Vermont economy at the end of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Morrisville, Vermont, drawn in 1889. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,160 × 4,704 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Morrisville, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491240 |
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