Facsimile of the seven Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Gallatin, Tennessee, made between 1888 and 1924, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Sumner County seat on Station Camp Creek: the brick business blocks around the County Court House on the Public Square, the L. & N. R. R. depot and the mills, spoke works and tobacco warehouses along the railroad, Howard Female College and the churches and schools, and the residential streets out to the Laurel Stud Farm and the county fair buildings.

In 1888 four sheets show the County Court House and jail, the Bicknell and Day's hotels, the Sindle House, the opera house, Examiner Printing, the Baptist, Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, Howard Female College and the public schools, the L. & N. R. R. depot, the Gallatin Chair Co., the Gallatin Cotton Factory, flour mills and gas works, a spoke factory, the Nickelson woolen mill, an agricultural implement works, a machine shop, a planing mill and two livery stables. The 1893 edition adds the Ajax Flour Mills and Union Roller Mills, and 1898 brings the C. & N. R. R. engine house, the Catholic and Episcopal churches, Hotel Hanson, the Trousdale Hotel, the Gallatin Mill and Elevator Co., a carriage works and C. E. Northrup's planing mill. In 1903 come the Anderson tobacco factory, the Avenue Hotel, the Cumberland Presbyterian church, the electric light plant, an ice and coal company, a steam laundry, the Payne Elevator and the Southern Carriage-works, and in 1908 the fire department, the water works, Shamberger Opera House, Sanfords Hotel, Hawkins Training School, the Laurel Stud Farm and the Sumner County Fair and Sale Association. The 1913 edition draws the Nashville-Gallatin Interurban R. R. depot, the Post Office, the First National and People's National bank buildings, the Sumner County Bank, the Pastime Theatre, Hotel Sumner, the Keystone and Union hotels, a coal and wood yard, a grocery warehouse and the Daughters of the Confederacy club house, and in 1924 come the Burley and Dark Tobacco Growers' co-operative warehouses, the Renn-Sloper Tobacco Factory, the Sumner County Creamery, a grist mill, a handle factory, a saw mill, an oil refinery, two wholesale grocers, Troutt's Hotel, Maple Lawn Inn, Hillcrest Apartments, the high school, the Church of Christ and the telephone exchange.

Between 1888 and 1924 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Gallatin seven times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town at fifty feet to the inch (the 1924 edition by its scale bars). 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, hydrants and water pipes all marked. Each edition opens with a key map of the town and an index of named businesses, mills, churches, schools and hotels, the editions from 1893 onward add an index of streets, 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 seven editions of 1888, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1913 and 1924, each with its key map and index on the first sheet, each edition introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Gallatin address back to 1888-1924.

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