Sanborn Maps
Facsimile of the 1912 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Spartanburg, South Carolina, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the Spartanburg County city of 18,000 people, from the stores, banks, hotels and theatre around Morgan Square and along Main and Church Streets, out along the Southern, the C. C. and O. and the C. and W. C. railroads to the Spartan, Beaumont, Whitney, Saxon, Arkwright and Valley Falls cotton mills, Wofford and Converse Colleges, the residential streets, and the State Institute for the Deaf and Blind at Cedar Springs.The thirty-three numbered sheets that follow work block by block from the stores, banks and hotels around Morgan Square and along Main Street, Church Street, Magnolia Street, Wofford Street, Broad Street and Liberty Street - the County Court House and Jail, the Post Office, the Guard House and Fire Department, the Carnegie Library and Kennedy Free Library, the Harris Theatre, the Cleveland Law Block, the Palmetto and Merchants and Farmers Bank buildings, the Y. M. C. A., the Argyle, Gresham, Stradford and Nomandy hotels and the Hotels Finch, Hudson, Oregon and Roberta - through the Southern Railway depots and East Spartanburg station, the C. C. and O. and C. and W. C. depots, the Spartanburg Railway, Gas and Electric car barn and power house, the Southern Power sub-station, the Spartan Mills, the Beaumont, Whitney, Saxon, Arkwright and Valley Falls cotton mills, the Union Cotton Bagging Corporation, the Southern Cotton Oil Company, the American Agricultural Chemical, International Chemical, Spartanburg and Farmers’ fertilizer works, the Royster guano works, the Palmetto Roller Mills, the Andrews loom-reed and harness works, the Standard Iron Works, the Spartanburg Machine and Pressed Stone companies, the Southern and Claxon marble and granite yards, the Davenport and Green River lumber yards and planing mills, the Hygenia Fuel and Ice Company, the Coca-Cola and Gay-Ola bottling works, the Armour and Swift meat depots, the National Biscuit Company, the Standard and Texas oil companies and the water works pumping station, to the Spartanburg Hospital and Dr. Pott’s Sanitarium, Wofford College and its Fitting School, Converse College, the South Carolina Institute for the Deaf and Blind at Cedar Springs, the Magnolia Street, Oakland Avenue, West End and South Church Street schools and the graded school for colored pupils, the First Baptist, First and Second Presbyterian, Central Methodist, Episcopal, Catholic, A. R. P., Gentry Memorial and Women’s Memorial churches, the Silver Hill, Majority and Thompson Street Baptist, Macedonia, Trinity A. M. E. and St. John A. M. E. Zion churches, Rock Cliff Park and Fairfield Park, and the residential streets of the city.In 1912 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Spartanburg for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, windows, party walls, hydrants, water mains and fire stations all marked. The index lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and works with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city.This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all thirty-four numbered map sheets, 1 to 34, sheet 1 being the combined title, key map and index sheet with its report on the water facilities and fire department, the others covering the city with the cotton mills, colleges and outlying works, Cedar Springs, Rock Cliff Park and Fairfield Park, printed at 8.5 x 11 inches on premium color paper. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Spartanburg address back to 1912.
