south side trackage

[Donald Galt]

On 3 May 00, at 16:54, John Swindler wrote:

> I'd trust your 1882 date, Don, a lot more then my guess.  Still rather
> early. Lancaster was done at least twice ... Dauphin and Fayette Counties
> also done too early to show electric lines 

Somewhere on my hard disk or on a zip disk I have some selections from 
the catalogues of the U Pitt libraries and the CLP, including that atlas 
reprint, whatever year it may have been. As I said earlier, my 1882 dating is 
drawn from copies that I made of an atlas published that year - an original, 
not a reprint.

This was a city atlas, hence detailed ward maps. Not many of those have 
been reissued. But a lot of the county atlases were reprinted in the 1970s 
and 1980s, partly in the spirit of bicentennialism but more often than not in 
the interests of genealogical research. For Lancaster County, two atlases 
were republished: 1876 and 1899. A third important resource, the 1864 
atlas, was not reprinted as far as I know. As you point out, the 1899 atlas 
actually does show streetcar lines in Lancaster and Millersville, though of 
course it is too early to show anything more of the Conestoga Traction 
empire.

Being thousands of miles from Pittsburgh doesn't place me in an optimum 
position for research        :-(

Don