thsfineday
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Does anyone know a good source of old maps of each state that might show old schools and such. Any help would be great. I am also looking for a site that might give me the age of each school. thanks in advance for any help.
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old maps
- Thread starter thsfineday
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The Sanborn maps are a very good source "if" you can get them. They are so detailed and if you are lucky enough to get maps a few years apart of "the same target site" you can see the changes as to where buildings where removed, modified, expanded, etc...
I use aerial photos to locate older homes by there roof top signitures. A rust colored roof is a dead give away, however not always an old building so you may have to ground truth to verify. Also ground signatures such as a cluster of large trees in a field, strange "squared anomyles", things that don't look normal may indicate where a structure used to be. I also drive around and look at buildings and some show signs of age. Get a road intersection or address and use your local property appraisors information. Most of the time it will give you the date the house was built.
Don
I use aerial photos to locate older homes by there roof top signitures. A rust colored roof is a dead give away, however not always an old building so you may have to ground truth to verify. Also ground signatures such as a cluster of large trees in a field, strange "squared anomyles", things that don't look normal may indicate where a structure used to be. I also drive around and look at buildings and some show signs of age. Get a road intersection or address and use your local property appraisors information. Most of the time it will give you the date the house was built.
Don
Uncle Willy
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Library of Congress has a nice collection. I don't have the URL handy but you can Google it.
Bill
Bill
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Very good site that shows complete town and county layouts w/ old church, school, and business locations.
One very handy thing that I've been doing is using Google Earth.
Once you've found an old map, you can use Google Earth to overlay the old map over the current town.
This allows you to see changes in the towns layout.
I figured it out by just messing around, so I suppose anyone could.
Very good site that shows complete town and county layouts w/ old church, school, and business locations.
One very handy thing that I've been doing is using Google Earth.
Once you've found an old map, you can use Google Earth to overlay the old map over the current town.
This allows you to see changes in the towns layout.
I figured it out by just messing around, so I suppose anyone could.
Pyledriver
Active member
That waymarking site is awesome! I'm already a member of geocaching.com so I just jumped right in and started looking for cool stuff! 
BigCatDaddy
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Just tried it, works fine with welcome. Be sure you have your CAPS lock turned off.
frichey@verizon.net
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local library should have local history books. these may not be on the shelevs... ask for the older rare local history books behind the counter... you cannot check them out but spend a few bucks and copy them.
