south side trackage

[John Swindler]

Donald Galt wrote:
>
>
>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


Another interesting source has been the county maps done around 1915.  Size 
is about 18 x 24 or so.  Not as much detail as the late 19th century atlas 
reprints, and not always completely accurate, but useful to know where to 
look for surviving remnants of car lines.  And knowing WHERE to look seems 
to be half the problem for those of us with an interest in tracking old car 
lines. Carnegie Library may have copies in their map room.  Otherwise, there 
are copies in map section (first floor, northwest corner) of State Library 
in Harrisburg.

John S.

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