Vintage Shelby Maps

 

 

 

 

The earliest known map of shelby was that drawn

by county surveyor John Stewart as a part of

James Gamble's plat for the town of Shelby that

is recorded at the Richland County Courthouse.

The earliest

 

 

James Gamble's Original Plat of Shelby

June 26, 1834

 

The streets that are shown intersecting

in this plat became what are now

Gamble and Main Streets.

 

 

 

 

 

Not quite A year passed before Henry Whitney

recorded an addition to James Gamble's Shelby.

Drawn on March 21, 1835 by John Stewart.

 

 

 

First Addition to James Gamble's Plat of Shelby

recorded May 13, 1835

 

This plat of lots is located between

Main Street and Whitney Avenue

on both sides of Gamble Street.

(Directly North and adjoining Gamble's original Plat.)

 

 

 

 

 

It It was an additional 17 years before any

Major additions were made. This plat would

become the "East Side Square" of Shelby.

The major streets shown are Broadway,

Second, High, Depot, and the unnamed street

at the top was called North Street.

 

Broadway and Second remain unchanged.

High became East Main Street, Depot is

now East Whitney, and North Street

is Smiley Avenue.

 

 

 

Eli Wilson Robert Mickey, and Henry Leyman

Shelby Addition recorded July 17, 1852

 

The Plat was drawn by County surveyor

Warren Scranton on December 12, 1851.

The application was attested by D. H. Young

& Jay Smiley, both of Shelby.

 

 

(Copies of these three maps (above) can be obtained at the

Richland County Recorder's office in Mansfield, Ohio.)

 

 

 

 

Shelby in 1856

(for a larger view, click on the above image.)

 

 

When this 1856 wall map was published, the three

plats (above) were integrated into an overall

view of Shelby. They are still at this point

the major areas of development. Note that

what was previously named High Street is

here labeled Main Street.

 

 

 

 

The Sharon Township portion the 1856 Richland County wall

map shows some of Shelby's immediate surroundings.

(for a much larger view, click on the above image.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelby in 1873

 

 

 

The 1873 Atlas Map published by A. T. Andreas of

Chicago, shows a Shelby that has grown dramatically

in the intervening 17 years since the 1856 Map.

 

The map denotes the location of the first plat,

labeling it "Original Town", and "Whitney's Addition"

is shown just to the north.

 

What was Main street in 1856 (east of Broadway)

is again High Street, and what is now West Main Street

here is labeled "East Main Street".

 

The latter was obviously an error, but the name

High Street was still in usage in 1873.

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 1884 Sanborn Map of Shelby East Side

(for a larger view, click on the above image.)

 

 

Since there were no known maps published in the

Richland County area that depicted Shelby during the

years between the 1873 and the 1896 atlases, it

is necessary to make use of a series of maps issued by

The Sanborn Map Company of Pelham, New York.

 

D. A. Sanborn's fire insurance company issued

maps dating from 1867 to the present, depicting

commercial, industrial, and residential sections

of some twelve thousand cities and towns in the

United States. By 1884 Shelby was included on

Sanborn's growing list of towns.

 

 

 

 

18 1884 Sanborn Map of Shelby West Side

(for two larger views, click on the left or right side of the above image.)

 

 

 

 

To Be

 

 

 

Shelby in 1896

(For an expanded view, click on an area of interest on the image above.)

(These images are large and may take awhile to load.)

 

 

 

By 1896 Shelby has grown in all directions. This map

appears in the County of Richland Imperial Atlas

and Art Folio, published by the Rerick Brothers

of Richmond, Indiana in 1896.

 

 

 

 

After the start of the new century, Shelby began

a period of rapid expansion that will be detailed

in the Shelby early industry section.

 

AAfter

 

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