Looking for an area biking map circa 1890

[thucydides]

Someone on here is bound to know this. Seven or eight years ago I had in my possession an ~1890 map of area roads. (I’m pretty sure an RA of mine absconded with it.) It almost certainly was related to the Good Roads Movement. I think some local entity reprinted the map for a fundraiser or awareness and presumably that is what I saw. My feeble memory is that it was a group in Montgomery County rather than WABA that did the reproduction. Anyone have any idea what I’m talking about?

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[americancyclo]

@thucydides 81941 wrote:

Someone on here is bound to know this. Seven or eight years ago I had in my possession an ~1890 map of area roads. (I’m pretty sure an RA of mine absconded with it.) It almost certainly was related to the Good Roads Movement. I think some local entity reprinted the map for a fundraiser or awareness and presumably that is what I saw. My feeble memory is that it was a group in Montgomery County rather than WABA that did the reproduction. Anyone have any idea what I’m talking about?

something like this?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3851p+ct002128%29%29

[thucydides]

I could swear the one I saw was about twenty years older. But it certainly was similar to this. Thanks.

[mstone]

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024442/1896-05-24/ed-1/seq-10/

also cool:

http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/07/23/strangers-guide-and-map-of-washington-in-1892/

[thucydides]

That Morning Times one has got to be it. Thank you, thank you.

[runbike]

I love that the article highlights “Conduit Road” (aka MacArthur Blvd.) as one of the best and rides of its day. Funny how some things never change.

[rpiretti]

Fascinating. Thanks

@americancyclo 81951 wrote:

something like this?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3851p+ct002128%29%29

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