Brownsville
HISTORIC MAPS ARCHIVE
When reading about the history of the Three Towns, places are occasionally mentioned that make one wish to consult a map from those days. Unfortunately, this has proven to be a tall order, as there has been no centralized collection of the historic maps depicting the Three Towns area over the past several centuries.
Until now.
The Brownsville HISTORIC MAPS ARCHIVE is designed to meet that need.
The Brownsville HISTORIC MAPS ARCHIVE is a collection of historic maps of the Brownsville, Bridgeport/South Brownsville and West Brownsville area, with the earliest map of Brownsville going back to 1819, just five years after the founding of the boroughs of Brownsville and Bridgeport.
The maps in this historic maps archive have been digitized for presentation here on the BrownsvilleHistoryHQ.com web site.
* Some of the map images here are professionally processed photographs of physical maps that are in the collection of the Brownsville Free Public Library.
* Some are photographs of physical maps in the collection of Glenn Tunney.
* Some are sets of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps (there are 7 sets of maps from 1886 to 1924), with links provided here to the on-line Sanborn maps collections at the Penn State digital library web site and the web site of the U. S. Library of Congress.
Credit for the professional digitization of the paper map collection of the Brownsville Free Public Library goes to Kelly Tunney, Brownsville photographer.
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To view any map in the Brownsville HISTORIC MAPS ARCHIVE,
click the red link (below) of the map you wish to view.
1700s Land Grantees (Redstone and Brownsville townships)
1773 Pennsylvania counties in 1773
1809-20 Brownsville, Bridgeport in 1809-1820
1819 Brownsville borough in November 1819
1855 Brownsville, Bridgeport and West Brownsville in 1855
1858 Brownsville and Bridgeport in 1858
1872 Brownsville, Bridgeport and West Brownsville in 1872
1872 Bridgeport and part of West Brownsville in 1872
1872 Brownsville and part of West Brownsville in 1872
1886 1886 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (6 maps)
1891 1891 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (6 maps)
1896 1896 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (8 maps)
1901 1901 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (8 maps)
1907 Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville and Blainesburg
1907 1907 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (19 maps)
1911 1911 Map of Newly Designated State Highways
1913 1913 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (19 maps)
1921 1921 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (22 maps)
1922 Map of the Three Brownsvilles
1924 1924 set of Sanborn fire insurance maps of the Three Towns (22 maps)
1930 Index Map of 5-map set of blueprint maps of State Highway 113 through Brownsville
1930 Maps 2 - 5 of 5-map set of blueprint maps of State Highway 113 through Brownsville
c. 1960s Ethnic distribution of residents in Brownsville borough
1985 Brownsville Residential Historic District (North Side)
1985 Brownsville Commercial Historic District (Neck)
1989 Brownsville area map (Chamber of Commerce)
c. 2000 Fayette County map of tourist attractions
c. 2000 Townships map in Brownsville vicinity (Fayette County)
2004 Brownsville, West Brownsville and vicinity
All contents of this web site, with the exception of copyrighted maps, including but not limited to individual web site pages, the books in which content on this web site was originally published, and newspaper articles which were originally published in the Uniontown Herald-Standard, are copyrighted by Glenn A. Tunney. However, you are welcome to download and print any articles you would like to print for your own use.
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