Historic Staunton Foundation: Maps and Mapmaking
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This document discusses resources for mapping and understanding the neighborhoods of Staunton, Virginia. It outlines the goals of building knowledge about each neighborhood's history, characteristics, and contributions to the city. It encourages utilizing readily available information sources and mapping methods to explore neighborhoods. Specific resources mentioned include the city's Geographic Information System maps, AutoCAD drawings, historic aerial photos, and fire insurance maps from the 1800s. Neighborhood patterns like building and parcel placement, street layouts, and architectural features are discussed.
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- 3. Brown Bag Neighborhood Tours, 2015 maps and mapmaking
- 4. Our Goals for Our Participants Build knowledge and pride in the distinct neighborhoods of Staunton and their contribution to the city. Value the history and stories of Staunton neighborhoods. Identify characteristics of individual neighborhoods in Staunton (name, location, history, street and building patterns, architecture, and types of buildings). Recognize the potential to preserve, sustain and reuse components of Staunton neighborhoods. Locate and use maps and other research tools to explore neighborhoods. maps and mapmaking
- 5. A Collective Approach Utilize readily available sources of information about our neighborhoods. Utilize readily available methods for assembling, recording, and presenting information about our neighborhoods. Work to build and assemble a common place of accessing the maps, photographs, and stories we collect along the way. maps and mapmaking
- 6. City of Staunton Resources: Geographic Information System maps and mapmaking
- 7. Geographic Information System: home page maps and mapmaking
- 8. Geographic Information System: additional map layers maps and mapmaking
- 9. Geographic Information System: content, topography maps and mapmaking
- 10. Geographic Information System: content, additional map layers, neighborhoods maps and mapmaking
- 11. Geographic Information System: content, additional map layers, neighborhoods maps and mapmaking
- 12. Geographic Information System: base map, USGS quadrant maps and mapmaking
- 13. City of Staunton Resources: Auto Cad, block by block maps and mapmaking
- 14. City of Staunton Resources: historic aerial photography maps and mapmaking
- 15. City of Staunton, Department of Engineering, FTP site maps and mapmaking
- 19. Neighborhood Patterning Placement of buildings related to the street and to one another Size of parcels related to buildings Roof structures Sequence of street, sidewalk, fences, hedges, gates, porches: the language of private and public space Street width: relationships between small, medium and large Overall arrangement: boundaries, center, edge, divisions “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” ~ Winston Churchill maps and mapmaking
- 20. February 5, 2016 maps and mapmaking
- 21. http://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=Staunton%2C+VA 27 maps available for download include Hotchkiss and Jefferson
- 22. Mutual Assurance Maps http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/insurance/mas1860.html Staunton Fire Insurance Depositions 1850-1860 The "Mutual Assurance Society Against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia" sold insurance policies from 1796 through 1861. In addition to collecting the information included below, company agents drew sketches of individual insured buildings, which will help us map them at a later date. Included below are building owners who took out (or, usually, renewed) policies on their homes and businesses between 1850 and 1860. These are linked to preliminary drawings of the buildings on their blocks.
- 23. Sanborn has been creating maps since 1866—longer than any other company in the United States. We’ve been gathering information and mapping buildings for more than 140 years. Our archives contain over 1.2 million Sanborn maps containing the history of approximately 12,000 American cities and towns. For pricing and additional information, or to order Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, contact Sanborn Pelham office customer service representatives at 1.800.930.3298, or send email to pelham@sanborn.com. http://www.sanborn.com/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps/