{"product_id":"1907-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-youngstown-ohio-volume-one","title":"1907 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Youngstown, Ohio, Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eInsurance Maps of Youngstown, Ohio, Volume One, published by the Sanborn Map Company of 11 Broadway, New York, in 1907 — reproduced here as a complete color facsimile, with all ninety-four numbered sheets, the key map and its report, and the full street and business indexes, at a scale of fifty feet to the inch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanborn's surveyors mapped a steel city of 62,000 with a hundred and forty miles of graded streets, a hundred and ten miles of water main, a thousand hydrants, and a paid fire department of sixty-four men and thirty trained horses working a Gamewell alarm system of seventy-eight boxes. Every structure is drawn in plan and color-coded by construction — brick, frame, iron, stone front, fireproof, adobe — with the number of stories, roof and wall materials, window and door openings, iron shutters, fire walls, chimneys, steam boilers, sprinklers and the name of the business inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mills are the reason the city was there, and they are all here: the Carnegie Steel Co.'s upper and lower mills with their emergency hospital, the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Co., the Youngstown Steel Co. and the Youngstown Foundry and Machine Co., the Union Engineering and Foundry Co., the Falcon Bronze Co., the Wire and Iron Steel Co. and Wilkoff's scrap yard, strung along the Mahoning and the Pennsylvania tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDowntown runs from Central Square out along Federal Street: the Dollar Bank building, McKelvey \u0026amp; Co.'s department store, the Grand Opera House, the Federal Building and post office, the Hotel Germania and the Imperial. Beyond it are Wick Park, Mill Creek Park with Lake Glacier and Lake Cohasset, Idora Park at the end of the line, the Ursuline Academy, the North Eastern Ohio Normal School, the county infirmary, the breweries and the cold storage houses — and, on the last sheets, the village of Canfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing a specific address, a vanished neighborhood, or a Youngstown business, these sheets record the city in a detail no other source preserves — an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Ohio history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e98 pages. 8.5\" x 11.25\". Full color. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872559308955,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820245695075","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_c4273811-b7ad-4c44-a250-f1d52d198868.jpg?v=1792533717","url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/products\/1907-fire-insurance-maps-and-atlas-of-youngstown-ohio-volume-one","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}