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?
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