Vintage Shelby Maps

 

 

 

 

1896 -Atlas Mapea

 

Shelby

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(Use the buttons below to navigate along Main Street or move north or south.)

 

This view along Main Street starting at the east side shows the Hotel

and Opera House on the west corners of the East side Square.

north along the B & O R.R. tracks is first, The Brucker Planing Mill

and then, The Sutter - Barkdull Company. Just beyond Smiley Avenue

on the west side of Broadway is The Shelby Cycle Company.

 

The B & O R. R. Depot is on the west side of the tracks on the

south side of Main Street. Further south along the east side of the

tracks is the newly constructed Electric Light facility. On

the west side of the tracks can be seen the old Wilson Cemetery

that had to be moved, to make room for the expanding

Shelby Sales Book Company.

 

At the Main Street bridge can be seen the Heath Mill and the

Central Hotel on the north side and the Sutter Store, Town Hall,

Post Office and Engine House on the south side.

 

South along the Blackfork River can be seen the Central

High School (no bandstand yet). Just beyond that, the Blackfork

makes a Huge meander west to a point just next to South

Gamble Street. This meander area was to become the future site

of Skiles Football Field after the river was dredged and

straightened. Much previous to the time of this map, this low

meander area was used as a mill pond during Shelby's

early years. The small stream that flows into the Blackfork

from the east was moved from the path shown to one that

now flows under the B & O R. R. just adjacent to where the

Wilson Cemetery is shown on this map.

 

What had previously been Mill and Depot streets have been

combined into Whitney. On the west side of the Whitney Street

bridge is the Carriage Works (north) and the Foundry (south).

 

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