More on Abingdon Branch

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The Salem, Va., public library has online Sanborn maps for all Virginia 
cities and towns at:

http://www.salemlibrary.info/research.html

Access requires the number from a library card from any of the Roanoke 
Valley libraries.  A resident of Virginia can get a card according to the 
following:

http://www.salemlibrary.info/card.html

Someone from outside Virginia can pay a fee that I believe runs about $14 to 
$16 to get a library card for access.

Gordon Hamilton

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Subject: Re: More on Abingdon Branch



> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Paul Mandelkern wrote:

>>

>> If you are looking for Sanborn maps of Virginia cities and towns,

>> several libraries in Virginia have the entire state set that you can

>> search for free including the UVA library, the VPI library, and the

>> Virginia State Library.

>

> I strolled over to the Virginia Tech library at lunch and found a couple

> of useful resources. While the library does have bound volumes of

> Sanborn maps, it is a limited set (Blacksburg, Roanoke/Salem,

> Richmond). There are, however, two sets of microfilm of all the

> maps for Virginia.

>

>>From the catalog entries:

> G3881.G475 S35 1983.

> TITLE        Sanborn fire insurance maps. Virginia [microform]

> PUB INFO     Teaneck, N.J. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1983.

> DESCRIPT     18 microfilm reels : maps ; 35 mm.

> NOTE         Reproduced from original copies in the Geography and Map 

> Division

> of the Library of Congress.

> Maps arranged alphabetically by name of city or town; within each

> city or town in chronological order.

> Maps are arranged on microfilm in the order that they appear in

> Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress, 1981.

> Includes only maps published before 1950.

> [The library only has four of the 18 reels, but does have the one with

> Abingdon.]

>

> G3881.G475 1991 F57

>

> "An alphabetical list of the communities of this state represented in

> this collection with reel numbers indicated is filmed at the beginning

> of each reel together with a list of cross-references wherever

> appropriate."

> [The library has all 11 reels in this set.]

>

> The library also has equipment to scan from the mircofilm to a file, which

> I will make use of later this week to get images of selected pages. This

> will be better than trying to piece together the photocopies spit out from

> another machine in the library.

>

> One interesting find is the layout of the Whiting Manufacturing Co., 

> located

> on the V & C R. R. 1-1/4 mile south of the Court House (in the Feb. 1908

> book). It could be a nice modeling project for someone with room on their

> layout for a large sawmill with an average stock of 5,000,000 feet of 

> white

> pine, hemlock & hard wood lumber (per the note on the page).

>

> As to other maps, MapTech (http://www.historical.maptech.com/index.cfm)

> is usually pretty good. However, it is lacking the older maps that cover 

> this

> area. On the upside, the Virginia Tech library does have older versions of

> the 7.5-minute quads that cover this line. I'll scan selected portions of 

> those,

> also. Once done, I'll post the images on the web and let the list know 

> where

> to find them.

>

> Bruce in Blacksburg

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