{"product_id":"old-map-of-granville-ohio-by-usgs-1910-hartford-bennington-st-albans","title":"Old Map of Granville, Ohio by USGS, 1910 – Hartford, Bennington \u0026 St Albans","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1944 from survey data collected in 1910, the US Geological Survey’s “Granville” is a finely disciplined portrait of central Ohio at a revealing moment in its modern development. Drawn at the classic 1:62,500 scale, it balances regional breadth with close local detail, placing Granville within a wider landscape of villages, roads, railways, streams, ridges, and cultivated ground. The long interval between survey and publication gives the map a layered historical quality: it preserves the geography and infrastructure of the early twentieth century while appearing under a mid-century USGS imprint. For collectors, it offers not only a topographical record, but a measured view of an Ohio community before later suburban expansion reshaped its surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGranville itself occupies the center of the map’s interest, a town long associated with New England settlement patterns, education, and the ordered civic landscapes of the Western Reserve cultural sphere. Around it, the map names nearby places such as Hartford, Bennington, Monroe, Liberty, Jersey, St Albans, and Harrison, creating a constellation of rural settlements and township identities. Roads and railways stitch these communities together, revealing the practical geography of movement before the dominance of modern highways. The result is a map that reads almost like a social document: farms, villages, transport corridors, and waterways combine to show how daily life, commerce, and communication were organized across the Granville region in the years around 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cartographic language is unmistakably that of the US Geological Survey: precise, economical, and deeply informative. Contour lines sweep across the sheet to describe the rise and fall of the Ohio landscape, making visible the ridges, shallow valleys, stream courses, and subtle uplands that define the area around Granville. Rather than treating the countryside as empty space between towns, the map gives the land itself a strong presence. Its historical color conventions clarify water, relief, built features, and transportation routes, allowing the viewer to move between aesthetic appreciation and practical interpretation. This is topography as both science and design, a disciplined visual system that turns measured terrain into an elegant graphic composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe natural features shown on the map are especially important to its character. Rivers and smaller streams trace the drainage pattern of the region, explaining the placement of roads, farms, settlements, and rail lines. In central Ohio, even modest changes in elevation could determine the route of a road, the location of a mill site, or the form of agricultural land use, and the contours here make those relationships legible. The valleys and ridgelines surrounding Granville are not dramatic in an alpine sense, but they are richly expressive when read through the USGS’s contouring. Their quiet complexity gives the map depth, offering a tactile sense of the landscape beneath the names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, “Granville” is valuable for the way it captures an infrastructural and environmental baseline. Comparing its roads, railways, settlement names, and landforms with later maps reveals patterns of population growth, realignment of transportation routes, and changing land use around Granville and its neighboring communities. Produced by the USGS, an agency central to the systematic mapping of the United States, the sheet belongs to a larger national project of measuring, classifying, and understanding American terrain. Yet its appeal is intensely local: it preserves the contours of a particular Ohio landscape and the relationships among its towns, waterways, and routes at the threshold between rural nineteenth-century patterns and twentieth-century transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGranville, Ohio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHartford\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBennington\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonroe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiberty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJersey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt Albans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarrison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoads and railways throughout the Granville region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRivers and streams in the surrounding area\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the US Geological Survey.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical topographical map at a scale of 1:62,500.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBased on data collected in 1910 and published in 1944.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows Granville, Ohio and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepicts topographical features, including elevation contours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContour lines indicate ridges, valleys, and elevation changes around Granville.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses a historical-style color palette to enhance visibility of landforms and terrain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects the geographic and infrastructural layout of the area in the early 20th century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides insight into changes in land use, population growth, and infrastructure development over time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? 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