1875 Combination Atlas Map of Delaware County, Pennsylvania

This is a facsimile reprint of the Combination Atlas Map of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Everts & Stewart of Philadelphia in 1875. It is reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy, with the original tinted township boundaries preserved. The fold-out drop map of the City of Chester listed in the original table of contents is not present in that copy and is not included here; every other map, view, and page of text is reproduced.

Delaware County in 1875 was the countryside just beyond Philadelphia, and this atlas records it on the eve of suburban growth. Landowner maps cover every township, each naming the property holders and their acreage and marking roads, railroads, mills, schools, churches, and post offices: Springfield, Radnor, Marple, Edgmont, Birmingham, Aston, Bethel, Thornbury, Newtown, Upper Providence, Nether Providence, Concord, Upper Chichester, Lower Chichester, Tinicum, Middletown, Upper Darby, Haverford, Darby, Ridley, and Chester. Borough and village plans show Media, Chester Township with the boroughs of South Chester, North Chester, and Upland, Darby, Marcus Hook, Louella, Fairview, Cummins's First Addition to Media, Prospect Park, Norwood, Ridley Park, Fernwood, Garrettville, South Media, Morton, Sharon Hill, Garrettford, and the Darby Improvement Association. An outline map of the county, a map of Pennsylvania, and a railroad map of the United States open the volume.

Nearly a third of the plates are lithographic views: the Delaware County Court House at Media, Chester Academy, the Advocate printing office, the Llewellyn mills of Rhodes & Brother, Brooke Hall Female Seminary, Maplewood Institute, the Elam Hotel, the bone and phosphate works of I. P. Thomas at Cheyney, the brick-yard of Matthew Boyd, and dozens of farms, mills, and residences across the county, with portraits of Joel and Sarah Ann Sharpless and of Minshall and Jacob Painter. The front matter carries an eight-page History of Delaware County with sketches of its villages and townships, a list of county officials and post offices, and the volume closes with a Directory of Patrons giving each subscriber's name, occupation, residence, and place of birth.

For genealogists it places an ancestor's farm on the map and pairs it with the patrons' directory; for house historians it shows the estates and villages of the Main Line, the Darby and Chester creeks, and the Delaware riverfront a generation before the suburbs arrived. It is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Delaware County and Philadelphia-area history.

66 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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