1882: CHAMBERSBURG FROM MOTT STREET TO BAYARD STREET TO HAMILTON AVENUE
For all my Chambersburg friends who lived in this area of "the Burg;" here's your chance to see who lived in your house on Mott, Elmer, Butler and Bayard Street back before the Italian population began to occupy the area.
Hi Tom! Fascinated by this map! My whole family lived on Mott Street in these houses so very interesting to see this! But in doing some digging, I'm finding something perplexing...is it possible the date of the map is wrong? It shows as 1882 in the graphic, however some of those showing as empty lots in this map did have homes on them already by 1882. I wonder if the map date was actually earlier? Houses #10,12,28 & 30 were all built 1876 according to the City of Trenton Certified Tax List, but are not on this map. Likewise, the house at #32 IS showing on the map and that was built 1871. This leads me to wonder if the map was really dated 1875 or earlier. *I took into account the address numbers may have changed over the years so i compared the map with the modern day lots.
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Hi Tom! Fascinated by this map! My whole family lived on Mott Street in these houses so very interesting to see this! But in doing some digging, I'm finding something perplexing...is it possible the date of the map is wrong? It shows as 1882 in the graphic, however some of those showing as empty lots in this map did have homes on them already by 1882. I wonder if the map date was actually earlier? Houses #10,12,28 & 30 were all built 1876 according to the City of Trenton Certified Tax List, but are not on this map. Likewise, the house at #32 IS showing on the map and that was built 1871. This leads me to wonder if the map was really dated 1875 or earlier.
*I took into account the address numbers may have changed over the years so i compared the map with the modern day lots.
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