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1900 Map of Girard

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Girard
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1932
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1932

About this map

The industrial and agricultural corridor of northwestern Pennsylvania at the turn of the century is defined by a dense web of competing railroads. Running parallel to the Lake Erie shoreline, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the New York Chicago and St. Louis railroads cut across Springfield township, while the Bessemer and Lake Erie snakes southward through the drainage basin of Conneaut Creek.

This 1899 survey highlights the economic importance of the rail hubs, with Thornton Junction and Springboro Station serving as critical nodes for local trade. Inland, the map reveals established communities like Albion, Cranesville, and Springboro along the Erie and Crawford County boundary line. Smaller, now-obscure points of interest such as Lundys Lane and the settlement of Pont provide invaluable detail for genealogists tracing ancestral homesteads in these lake-bordering townships.