Pennsylvania Historic County Maps

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Pennsylvania Historic County Maps

Unread postby Chessie8638 » Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:40 pm

This site has historical maps for all of Pennsylvania's counties. Could come in handy:

http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bur ... CountyMaps
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Re: Pennsylvania Historic County Maps

Unread postby jpetersjr » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:02 pm

Do you also know of a site that has old building blueprints from Pennsylvania.

Those would defiantly be useful to me and then I'd build some of the buildings for Railworks.

As far as building a route, I can't read a map like this for anything, or even know of how to set it up.
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Re: Pennsylvania Historic County Maps

Unread postby _o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:45 pm

Check this resource, it has all you need: The Library of Congress, especially the H.A.E.R. collection, I can browse that for hours!
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/

Would you care to do Thurmond, W.Va. for instance?
You can find detailed drawing like these and many more, ready to model:
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Or historic Cleveland, Pittsburgh or any other major US city that has a university with a history department and electronic library.
Pay special attention to the rapidly vanishing public and civic architecture from the 20's till 40's in Art Deco style.
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