This bird���s-eye view of Ridgway, Pennsylvania was drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer in 1895. Ridgway was first settled by Europeans as a lumbering community along the Clarion River in the 1820's. In the 1870's coal mines and gas wells began to emerge from Ridgway���s landscape. The community also had interests in leather goods, clay products, silk goods and machine tools.
The map from 1895 includes Ridgway streets, buildings, bridges and railroad routes. Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations: 1. Public Schools. 2. Court House. 3. Jail. 4. The New Hyde. J. H. Shanbacher, Proprietor. 5. Ross House. C. E. Ross, Proprietor. 6. Clarion House. W. S. Zink, Proprietor. 7. McFarlin House. A. D. Avery, Proprietor. 8. Bogert House. Hugh McGeehin, Proprietor. 9. Saw Mill. W. H. Hyde & Co., Proprietors. 10. Grist Mill. W. H. Hyde & Co., Proprietors. 11. Planing Mill. Hyde, Murphy & Co., Proprietors. 12. Empire Feed Mills. A. H. Buckland, Proprietor. 13. Eagle Valley Tannery. 14. Ridgway Tannery. 15. Standard Axe & Tool Works. 16. Ridgway Steam Laundry. Stackpole Bros. 17. J. H. McEwen Mfg. Co. 18. Electric Light Plant. 19. Ridgway Brick Works. 20. Ridgway Mfg. Co. 21. Shingle Mill. Wm. Dickinson, Proprietor. 22. B. R. & P. R. R. Station. 23. P. & E. R. R. Station.
A. M. E. Church. B. First Congregational Church. C. First Ev. Lutheran Church. D. Swedish Lutheran Bethlehem Church. E. Grace Episcopal Church. F. St. Leo���s Roman Catholic Church. G. Swedish Congregational Church. H. Free Methodist Church. |