History Gallery: Early History

Maps

Sanborn map of Crawfordsville, February 1925. Insurance maps were created for fire insurance purposes but are now an invaluable document of a town's past growth and development.


Montgomery County in 1875 (the map highlights fossil beds, sandstone, limestone, coal, mineral springs, crinoids, etc. on a plat of the county).


These images are from the Assessor's Plat Book -- Union Township -- Montgomery County 1895. The individual maps show street-level detail of what was located in Crawfordsville at the end of the 19th century.

South Wabash Ave,
West Grant Ave
North Wabash Ave,
West Grant Ave
South Wabash Ave
between Grant/Plum

North Wabash Ave
between Grant/Whitlock
South Wabash Ave,
East of Plum
North Wabash Ave,
East of Whitlock