
The town of Harrisville serves as the focal point of this 1920s landscape, where the winding tributaries of the Hughes River dictate the settlement patterns of Ritchie County. The era's industrial footprint is clearly visible through the Baltimore and Ohio RR corridor in the north and the Little Kanawha RR following the South Fork Hughes River to the south. This network connected small rural outposts like Cairo and Petroleum to the wider region.
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1893 · Sutton
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1904 · Marietta
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1905 · West Union
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1906 · Saint Marys
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1906 · Holbrook
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1906 · Glenville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1906 · Elizabeth
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1907 · Harrisville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1907 · Arnoldsburg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1907 · Spencer
USGS Topo · 1:62,500