Facsimile of the seven Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Pulaski, Tennessee, made between 1888 and 1916, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Giles County town on Richland Creek: the business blocks around the County Court House on First, Second, Madison and Jefferson Streets, the L. & N. R. R. depot and the mills and yards along the creek, Giles College and Martin College, the residential streets out to Sam Davis Avenue, the Pulaski Pike and the East Hill Addition, and the outlying Vale Mills.

In 1888 three sheets show the County Court House and Jail, the Osbourne and Linden hotels, the I. O. O. F. Lodge, the Cumberland, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, Childress' and McGrew's tanneries, B. F. McGrew's cotton gin, Neely & McCord's and the Pulaski roller mills, T. W. Pitman & Co.'s and Williams & Watson's planing mills, W. N. Webb & Son's machine shop, three liveries, Giles College, Martin Female College and the Vale Mills Company's rope, twine and cotton yarns works. The 1891 edition adds the Opera House, Commercial Hotel, Episcopal Church, Pulaski Creamery, electric light plant and ice company, a wagon shop and a stock yard. In 1895 seven sheets reach the L. & N. R. R. depot, City Building, Pulaski Water Co.'s works, Pulaski Carriage Works, the Citizen printing office, the People's Flour Mill, an ice factory, a hoop factory, an evaporator, brick, lumber and coal yards and saw and grist mills. 1899 brings the Arlington Hotel, Christian, Missionary Baptist and New Mt. Zion Baptist churches, Richland Mills, Union Stock-yards and Brannon & Hopper's saw and planing mill, and 1905 a tobacco company, City Hall, Magnolia Steam Laundry and marble and granite works. The 1910 edition draws the East Hill Addition, Post Office, Massey Preparatory School, First Baptist Church, fire department, telegraph office, a gin, a spoke mill, a piano player company and the Standard Oil Co., and in 1916 come the St. Giles Hotel, Hotel Doud, Hill Crest Creamery Co., a carriage factory, a cold storage and ice factory, the Catholic Church and Zion Baptist Church.

Between 1888 and 1916 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Pulaski seven times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town at fifty feet to the inch - the 1888 to 1910 cartouches print that scale, the 1916 edition shows it in its scale bars, with its sheet 11 at one hundred feet. 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 1895 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 fifty-three map sheets of the seven editions of 1888, 1891, 1895, 1899, 1905, 1910 and 1916, 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 Pulaski address back to 1888-1916.

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