Facsimile of the five Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Plymouth, Indiana, made between 1886 and 1910, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Marshall County seat on the Yellow River: the court house and jail and the brick business blocks of Michigan Street and La Porte, the Centennial Opera House and the hotels, the flour and roller mills, elevators, tanneries and planing mills along the railroads, the water works and electric light plant by the river, and the residential additions from Westervelt's and Wheeler's to Cabell's, Ewing's and Houghton's.

In 1886 five sheets show the Court House and Jail, the Centennial Opera House, the Balcony, Corbin's and Wheeler's blocks, the Ross, Parker, Vinnedge and Windsor hotels, the Plymouth Roller Mills, Kyle and Jehner's roller mills, J. Westervelt's flour mills and the Eureka Mills, Linkenhelt's elevator and warehouse, H. G. Thayer's grain elevator, the P. Ft. W. and C. R. R. freight depot, the Plymouth Tannery and J. Schultheis' tannery, A. L. Thomson's planing mill, the Plymouth Public School, St. Michael's Academy and the Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, St. Paul's Reformed and St. Thomas' Episcopal churches. The 1892 survey adds the Edgerton M'f'g Co., the Indiana Novelty M'f'g Co., Heinz' pickling works, M. J. Disher's flour mill, P. Knizley's handle factory, the planing mills of M. A. D. Packard, C. L. Morris and Raymond and Talbot, H. Stein's bottling works, M. W. Simons' electric light and power plant, the water works, the L. E. and W. R. R. depot, St. Joseph's Hall and the Presbyterian Church. In 1898 come the Electron Cycle Co., the Plymouth Wagon Factory and Sanitarium, R. McCance's and Sult and Railsback's planing mills, W. Zehner's roller mill, W. O'Keefe's lumber yard, the T. H. and I. R. R. depot, the Church of God, the U. B. Church and the Webster Avenue school. The 1905 edition shows the Abrasive Mining and M'f'g Co., the Chicago Wheel and M'f'g Co., the Clizbie M'f'g Co., I. Anderson's foundry and machine shop, the Eagle Broom Factory, the McCallum Steel Wagon Co., the Plymouth M'f'g, Canning and Packing Co., W. League's cooperage works, F. E. Garn's elevator, the Schlosser creamery and ice cream factory, J. Swindell and Bro.'s cold storage, the Plymouth Electric Light Plant, the Vandalia R. R. depot, the Bacon Building, the Bank Block, the Grand Hotel, the fire department, the Church of Christ and the Washington and Webster public schools, and in 1910 come the Illinois Barrel Co., the Northern Indiana Gas and Elec. Co.'s gas plant, C. L. Morris' lawn swing, water tank and silo works, the Eagle M'f'g Co., a cement block factory, the Plymouth Sanitarium and Hospital, the new St. Michael's Church and Magnetic Park on the Yellow River.

Between 1886 and 1910 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Plymouth five times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town 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, mill machinery, railroad sidings, hydrants and water pipes all marked. Each edition has a key map of the town and an index of streets and named businesses, mills, churches, schools and hotels, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all forty-nine map sheets of the five editions of 1886, 1892, 1898, 1905 and 1910, with the key map and index of every edition, each edition introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Plymouth address back to 1886-1910.

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