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Map of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin

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This map of La Crosse has relief shown by hachures and includes a "list of plats in order of date of record," text about laws which vacate plats, plats not shown as upon the county records, and description and contents of the tracts of land, and an alphabetical index to list of plats. Plat additions are outlined in red manuscript annotations. The map shows additions, streets, railroads, roundhouses, mills, schools, churches, pump house, dry house, post office, boarding houses, banks, foundry and machine shops, railroad depots, saw mills, hotels, street car stable, Oak Grove Cemetery, Trotting Park, Concordia Social Hall, Gas Works, G. Zeisler's Brewery, cooper shop, tanneries, La Crosse Plow Works, threshing machine factory, carriage factory, court house, jail, electric light tower, American Express Office, pork packing houses, La Crosse Business College, Opera House, La Crosse Cracker Company, flouring mills, wagon shops, Marble Works, City Scales, Boiler Works, City Water Works, soda water factory, C and J Michels Brewery, armories, woolen mills, convent, hospital, G. Heilemans Brewery, Gunds Empire Brewery, and a shooting park.

Date Created:
1886
Creator:
Bliss, Henry I., 1831?-1896 (cartographer)

Publication Information

Creator Bliss, Henry I., 1831?-1896 (cartographer)
Publisher La Crosse, Wis., H.I. Bliss
Date Created 1886
Language English

Physical Description

Format Map
Extent 1 map
Dimensions 172 x 100 cm, on sheets 71 x 106 cm or smaller
Scale [1:4,800]. 400 feet to an inch

Collection Information

Digital Collection Maps and Atlases
Call Number D GX9029 L14 1886 B
Catalog Record https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910109627402121

Copyright Information

Copyright Status NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Rights Holder Wisconsin Historical Society
Unique ID
W0142IB
Legacy ID
WHi 105484

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