Monday, July 14, 2008

Aerial Views of Warwick Village

The Historical Society owns two aerial view maps of the Village of Warwick which show the tremendous growth of the village between 1887 and 1923:
Section of the 1887 Map
Showing the area of Lewis Park and the Old School Baptist Meeting House:

The 1923 Aerial View map of the Village on the Warwick Valley History Website:
http://www.albertwisnerlibrary.org/Factsandhistory/History/1923WarwickAerialSmallerGrayscale.jpg

is fun to compare to the 1875 map recently distributed by one of our local realtors, which is also online on the Library of Congress Website:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/gmd380/g3804/g3804w/pm006510.sid&itemLink=r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3804w+pm006510))&title=Warwick,+N.Y.+1887.+&style=gmd&legend=

...And to the present day, which you can view if you download Google Earth (free)http://earth.google.com/(once you've downloaded, just type in Warwick New York)

If you'd rather look at it on Google Maps, here is a link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.258822,-74.357035&z=17&t=h&hl=en

.....HOW MANY BUILDINGS CAN YOU FIND WHICH ARE NO LONGER THERE?