1879 Denver Map Georeferenced With Google Maps

[Teshadoh]

This is a great time killer - David Rumsey now has accurate historical maps georeferenced with Google Maps.

http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g4841001.html

[arkhitektor]

Originally Posted by Teshadoh

This is a great time killer - David Rumsey now has accurate historical maps georeferenced with Google Maps.

http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g4841001.html

One of the coolest things I've ever seen....

[SLCdude]

Great find! I didn't realize Cherry Creek was that wide? Has the flow gone down since or has it just been confined into a narrower channel?

Salt Lake buried City Creek completely underground from where it enters the city to where it dumps out into the Jordan River. It's a real shame. I am very jealous of Denver for at least keeping Cherry Creek above ground for all to see!

[bunt_q]

It's confined, but more importantly it's dammed (Cherry Creek Reservoir) 9 or so miles above downtown, which steadies the flow and has all but eliminated the floods that used to nail Denver.

[wong21fr]

Awesome find. I'm right on the edge of the map.

[Teshadoh]

A couple of interesting landmarks that are no longer around - Ford Park northeast of downtown, home to a horse race track (Race Street was named after it) & what appears to be an abandoned planned suburb named Villa Park (at present day 104th & Federal). Also notice who the property owner is south of Villa Park - more information here: http://www.piton.org/index.cfm?fusea...UseEmptyLayout

[Dogpatch]

Wow. That's pretty cool!
It's surprising how many street names have changed.

[The Dirt]

That's weird... All of the numbered avenues used to run north-south, and all of the numbered west-east avenues were named. When did that change?

[BG918]

Are there any remnants of the Platte River Irrigation Canal that used to flow through what is now Uptown and Capitol Hill? Also interesting how wide the S. Platte used to be where Commons Park is now.

[Teshadoh]

Some additional historical artifacts from the map:

Cheeseman Park was once an Arapahoe Indian burial ground & later the first city cemetery - Mount Prospect. The first white man buried there had died in a gun fight.

Acacia Cemetery was located between Zuni & Tejon Streets and 29th & 32nd. You will notice this on the map represented by a tombstone symbol (cemetery) & symbols of the Freemasons & Odd Fellows (southwest parcel). Obviously now it is residential area in Highlands but was once a cemetery until 1881.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm...coll14/id/1883