Facsimile of the six Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, made between 1886 and 1914, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Westmoreland County town from its Main Street, Diamond and Public Square out along Smithfield, Washington and Church Streets: the hotels, stores, churches and opera house of the business district, the B. & O. and P. R. R. depots, the flour and planing mills, the Bryce Bros. glass tumbler factory and the brewery by the railroads, and the streets out to Bridgeport and the H. C. Frick Coke Co. works.

In 1886 five sheets show the B. & O. R. R. depot, the National, Central and Gibbs hotels, O. P. Shupe's flour mill, the Mt. Pleasant Milling Co., the Mt. Pleasant Gas Works, J. H. Boltz's machine shop, Galley, Mechling & Co.'s carriage factory, John Husband & Bro.'s planing mill, J. Lewis's foundry facing mill, the Union Supply Co. store, the public schools, the Memorial Presbyterian, United Presbyterian, St. Peter's Reformed, Baptist and United Brethren churches and the Western Pennsylvania Classical & Scientific Institute. The 1891 survey adds the Pa. R. R. depot, the Grand Opera House and the Mt. Pleasant Foundry. By 1896 come the Bryce Bros. glass tumbler factory, the Mt. Pleasant Brewing Co., the Acme Facing Mill, Zimmerman & Andrews' planing mill, the brick works, electric light plant, steam laundry, water pump house and greenhouse, the Commercial, Cooper and Grand Central hotels, the Simpson House, Trinity Lutheran and the Reunion Presbyterian churches. In 1901 the Pittsburgh Brewing Co.'s Mt. Pleasant branch, the Atlantic Refining Co., the bottling works, creamery, Hotel Andrews, National Hall and the Free Methodist Church appear. The ten sheets of 1908 reach the Anchor Glass Co., the Searchlight M'f'g Co. stove works, the Automatic Wrench Co., the Pressed Steel Pole Co., the Mt. Pleasant Tool Co., ice works, distillery and hospital, the Armory, the Goldsmith Building, St. Joseph's Church and School, the First Baptist Church and the Ruder Inn. The thirteen sheets of 1914 add the Municipal Building, the post office, the High School, the Mt. Pleasant Institute, the L. E. Smith Glass Co., Standard Distilling Co. Distillery No. 51, the Freedom Oil Works, the Bank Apartments, the Mt. Pleasant Lumber Co., and the H. C. Frick Coke Co. Standard Works with its coke ovens, tipple and incline.

Between 1886 and 1914 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Mount Pleasant six times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town at fifty feet to the inch (the 1914 edition by the scale note on its sheets). Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, mill and factory machinery, railroad tracks, hydrants and water pipes all marked. Every edition opens with a key map of the town and an index of streets and of named works, 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 fifty map sheets of the six editions of 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1908 and 1914, 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 Mount Pleasant address back to 1886-1914.

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