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1901 Map of Amity

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Amity
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

Chartiers Creek and its complex network of tributaries like Opossum Run and Little Chartiers Creek define this section of Washington County at the dawn of the 20th century. The landscape is a portrait of early industrial and agricultural Pennsylvania, where the National Pike and the Williamsport and Washington Turnpike bisect rolling hills dotted with family-named locales such as Judge Chambers and Mc Cracken.

Major transit corridors converge at Washington, while regional rail lines including the Baltimore and Ohio RR and the Waynesburg and Washington RR provide vital links between settlements like Meadowlands, Eightyfour, and Amity. The map captures the distinct township boundaries of North Strabane and West Bethlehem, revealing a dense pattern of crossroads such as Condit Crossing and small hubs like Laboratory that served as the social and economic anchors for local rural life.