Beers’ Atlas of Carbon County, 1875
NOTES:
Indexing
the property owners of the borough of Lehighton was perhaps the most difficult
of all the Beers maps. Many thanks again
to Brian Gallagher for his painstaking transcription work. The street names and numbering of lots has
changed greatly in the borough in the last 125 plus years. Gone are the street names of Banks, Lehigh,
Northampton and Pine, they are now First, Second, Third and Fourth Street. Banks sort of survives in the modern street
name of Bankway, which runs from Iron St. down to Bridge St.
Several of the streets in the Beers map have no
names, in which case I have endowed the map with their present day names. These are ALUM, BRIDGE, MAHONING and BANKWAY. RAILROAD ST. doesn’t even appear as a
visible street on the Beers map, but I used that name to help locate property
owners in that area. As the name
implies, RAILROAD ST. runs along the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, between
Lehighton and the river.
Lot numbering in Lehighton at the time of the map
also differs greatly from present day.
Today, lot numbers are even on one side of the street, odd on the
other. In 1875 the numbers ran up one
side of the street, then down the other.
Some of the names of the property owners is written
so fine that interpretation of the names was very difficult. We did the best we could on this.
The map itself also proved a great problem. In the book form of the atlas, the borough map is presented on two pages, with the borough divided by the spine of the book. In many places, the names vanish into the spine. In order to get these names and to present the map online, I copied the map from the sheets available at the Dimmick Memorial Library in Jim Thorpe. The Dimmick’s maps are not in book form, they are separate sheets copied from the original survey. They are also a bit larger than what is found in the book form of the atlas. Many thanks to the Dimmick Library for their help!
But that was only a part of the problem with
presenting the map online. I needed to
make laser copies of the large map at the Dimmick, then scan those copies into
my computer and paste them together on a 30 by 20 blank page. If the positioning of the map was off just a
fraction, in either the laser copy or the scan, then the pages did not line up
correctly when I joined them together.
I did as best as I could on this, but there are some places on the
online map where you can see the uneven joints of the separate maps.
Now, with all that understood, on to the Property Owner index and the map!
Click
here to go to the 1875 Beers Atlas map of Lehighton Be warned, this is
a LARGE map, weighing in at around 750 Kb!
Lehighton Property
Owners:
Return
to the Beers’ Atlas index page
Research
& web page
by
Jack
Sterling
August
2002
