1906 Map of Burgettstown

About this map

Burgettstown serves as a central hub in this early twentieth-century survey of Washington County and its borderlands. The landscape is defined by the convergence of heavy industry and rural settlement, particularly visible in the rail corridors of the Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis RR and the Wabash Terminal RR. The extraction economy of the era is anchored by sites like the Francis Mine near Dinsmore and the Shaw Mine to the east. Smaller communities and family-named locales like Pattersons Mill, Bavington, and North Star Tyre P O are scattered across a complex network of runs and forks, including Cross Creek and Raccoon Creek. Notable landmarks such as the McDonald Waterworks and high points like Bald Knob provide orientation for those tracing the industrial and genealogical history of the Pennsylvania coal and steel belt.