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Fire Insurance Maps of Winooski, Vermont
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1884-1919
- Description: This collection contains large-scale maps of Winooski, Vermont produced by the Sanborn Company from 1884-1919 to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The fire insurance maps provide a detailed record of Winooski’s development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two falls on the Winooski River provided power that allowed the village of Winooski to become a small industrial center. The insurance maps focus on the extensive textile mills and manufacturing works located along the Winooski River, as well as the residences, commercial buildings, churches, and other structures that surrounded the industrial complexes. The colored 21 x 25 inch map sheets show building footprints, construction methods and materials, size and number of floors, and uses. They also indicate streets, railroads, property boundaries, street numbers, water systems, and fire protection. Each map set includes a detailed key that lists the symbols used to indicate building features. The 1889-1919 sets include an index sheet showing the mapped area and sheet numbers, a list of streets and addresses, and a “specials index” of businesses and organizations. Later Winooski insurance maps (1926, 1942, 1960 and 1978) are available in UVM Special Collections. More information about Sanborn fire insurance maps is available here - http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont
Long Trail Photographs
- Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965, Dean, Theron S.
- Date Created: 2010-03-09
- Description: The Long Trail Collection includes over 900 images of the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States: Vermont’s Long Trail. The collection is mainly comprised of black-and-white and hand-colored lantern slides derived from photographs taken between 1912 and 1937. It documents the Green Mountain Club’s building of original trails and shelters and illustrates the enthusiasm for the Long Trail project (and hiking in general) at the turn of the century. These images chronicle the views and landscapes seen by early hikers of the Long Trail and provide an historical record of people associated with the Green Mountain Club’s formative years. The images in this collection were captured by Green Mountain Club members Theron S. Dean and Herbert Wheaton Congdon, both of whom were early contributors to the trail’s development. Congdon surveyed and mapped a large portion of the early trail including a fifty mile stretch from Middlebury Gap to Bolton. Congdon, along with Leroy Little and Clarence Cowles, is also credited with the first winter ascent of Mount Mansfield on February 21, 1920. Dean is perhaps the most prolific documenter of the Long Trail’s development. Dean traveled throughout Vermont presenting slideshows and giving talks about the Long Trail, often to hundreds of people. A number of the original lantern slides in this collection were used by Congdon and Dean in their Long Trail presentations. Dean in particular meticulously cultivated his lantern slide collection and displayed these slides during his many talks. The original slides can be viewed in the Dean and Congdon collections at the University of Vermont Silver Special Collections Library. More information about the Long Trail can be obtained from the Green Mountain Club. The slides were scanned by the University's Landscape Change Program with the generous support of the National Science Foundation. The digitized photographs also appear in the Landscape Change image database at: http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
- Date Created: 1869-1919
- Description: This collection contains large-scale maps of Burlington, Vermont produced to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The fire insurance maps provide a remarkably detailed record of the city’s development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The maps dating from 1885, 1894, 1900, 1906, 1912 and 1919 were produced by the Sanborn Company. The earliest set, from 1869, does not indicate a publisher, but it is very similar to other early Sanborn maps. The 1869 maps show the commercial, industrial, and residential area from the Lake Champlain waterfront east to Church and Shelburne Streets and from Pearl Street on the north to Howard Street on the south. Coverage gradually expands to include the growing downtown, the University of Vermont and the manufacturing area at Winooski Falls to the east, and new residential and commercial areas to the north and south. The colored 21 x 25 inch sheets show building footprints, construction methods and materials, size and number of floors, and uses. They also show streets, railroads, wharves and slips, property boundaries, street numbers, water systems and fire hydrants. Except for 1869, each map set includes an index sheet showing the mapped area and sheet numbers, a list of streets and addresses, a “specials index” of businesses and organizations, and a detailed key that lists the symbols used to indicate building features. Later Burlington insurance maps (1926 to 1978) are available in UVM Special Collections - http://library.uvm.edu/sc/. More information about Sanborn fire insurance maps is available here - http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/sanborn/.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1869
- Date Created: 1869
- Description: The 1869 fire insurance map sheets for Burlington, Vermont were produced to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. The six sheets show the commercial, industrial, and residential areas from the Lake Champlain waterfront east to Church and Shelburne Streets and from Pearl Street on the north to Howard Street on the south. Although no publisher is indicated, the 1869 Burlington maps are very similar to other early Sanborn Company maps.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont, 1885
- Date Created: 1885
- Description: The 1885 fire insurance maps for Burlington, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map and Publishing Co. to provide insurance companies and underwriters with detailed and accurate information about individual properties. In addition to the city’s commercial, industrial and residential center, two sheets show the University of Vermont and other institutions on the hill in the eastern part of the city as well as the manufacturing area at the mills on the Winooski River.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Burlington, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1894-1910
- Description: This collection contains large-scale maps of the village of Richmond, Vermont produced by the Sanborn Company from 1894-1910 to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The insurance maps provide a detailed record of the village’s development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The maps show the residences, businesses, industries, public buildings, churches and railroad facilities in the central portion of Richmond village. The colored 21 x 25 inch sheets show building footprints, construction methods and materials, size and number of floors, and uses. They also indicate streets, railroad lines, property boundaries, street numbers, water systems and fire protection measures. Each map set includes a detailed key that lists the symbols used to indicate building features. 1926 and 1939 insurance maps for Richmond are available in UVM Special Collections.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont, 1894
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1894
- Description: The 1894 fire insurance map sheet for the central part of the village of Richmond, Vermont was produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. It also includes an inset showing H. C. Gleason’s farm and creamery, located a short distance southwest of the village.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont, 1910
- Creator: Sanborn Map Company
- Date Created: 1910
- Description: The 1910 fire insurance map sheet for the central part of the village of Richmond, Vermont was produced by the Sanborn Map Company to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. The map shows new brick commercial buildings that were erected after a major fire in 1908 destroyed or damaged much of the village center.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont, 1899
- Date Created: 1899
- Description: The 1899 fire insurance map sheets for Essex Junction, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. In addition to the village center, insets document the factories, mills, and creamery south of the village on the Winooski River and the Drury Brick and Tile Co. to the northeast.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont
Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont, 1904
- Date Created: 1904
- Description: The 1904 fire insurance map sheets for Essex Junction, Vermont were produced by the Sanborn Map Company to give fire insurance companies and underwriters accurate information about insured properties. Maps show the village center, including the new corn canning factory, as well as the factories on the Winooski River to the south and the brick yard to the northeast.
- Parent Collections: Fire Insurance Maps of Vermont, Fire Insurance Maps of Essex Junction, Vermont