The buildings were color coded (blue - stone, red - brick, yellow - wood) and other details that insurance agents and firemen would find useful.
Library of Congress holds many maps by Sanborn, those for Ellicott City: 1887, 1894, 1899, 1904, 1910.
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I've included these maps many times in past blog posts, and will continue. Today I posted many images of the large Patapsco Flour Mill on my Researching Food History blog. That post was initially intended for this blog, so I've compiled links to my EC blog posts that use Sanborn maps.
Click on images to enlarge.
Key for the maps 1894
THE flour mill - Patapsco Flouring Mills C. A. Gambrill Mfg Co. 1500 Barrels, 1899
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Flour Mill turned into making electricity.1894 map
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"Kraft’s Slaughter House" behind the Kraft home (now Slack Funeral Home at 3871 Old Columbia Pike). Kraft's "Meat" store (now empty, 8081 Frederick/Main St. was Tea on the Tiber) was between Main St. and electric plant on preceeding map with electric power plant in old mill building. Blog post on the wealthy Kraft family butchers
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Turntable at the oldest train station in America
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"Undertaker" on the map - Easton Sons (3rd building up on 'Fredrick', lower Main St)
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"Patapsco Heights Hotel" in 1910 - was Patapsco Female Institute
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"Talbott & Clark" Hardware, 1894 - was Deborah Disney's hotel.
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Details of the town's fire department in 1910, on first page
Fire Company No. 1 (The Firehouse Museum) built 1896 on the triangular lot at juncture of Church St and Main St. Picture from HABS HO-61 as a filler until I get over to phtograph the building.
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Sanborn Insurance Maps at Library of Congress. Info page
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Sanborn Insurance Maps at Library of Congress.
Taped talk. Lisa Louis Cooke (geneologist), Julie Stoner (LC maps). 30 min.
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Union List of Sanborn & Other Fire Insurance Maps. and.
Bibliography of Works about Fire Insurance Maps. UC Berkeley Library
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©2023 Patricia Bixler Reber
Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD
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