Three days in July 1863 made Gettysburg the most famous small town in America — and for the next sixty years the Sanborn Map Company kept drawing it. This volume is a complete full-color facsimile of all seven Sanborn fire insurance surveys of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: November 1886, October 1891, July 1896, September 1902, June 1907, June 1912, and July 1924. All 59 sheets are reproduced in color from the copies preserved in the Library of Congress, drawn at the Sanborn standard scale of fifty feet to the inch.

Across seven editions you can watch a battlefield town learn to live on its history. The 1886 survey covers Gettysburg in just three sheets; by 1924 the town fills seventeen. In between, the maps record the tourist economy taking shape building by building: the Eagle Hotel and the relic shops, the Jennie Wade House Museum, the great round Cyclorama hall, the trolley line to the battlefield, the monument works, the college and the seminary. Every hotel, souvenir store, warehouse, and dwelling is mapped to its footprint, with street names, house numbers, and business names as they stood in each survey year — making it possible to trace a single lot through four decades of change.

An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and collectors of Gettysburg and Pennsylvania history.

72 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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