Author: TheKnowOwl

Detailed Map of Bethel, Missouri

A modern aerial map of Bethel in Shelby County, Missouri, with Main Street, the numbered streets and the town’s buildings in red. Read how a German colony laid out the town, and how Peter Stice built a water mill here in 1836.

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Detailed Map of Bloomingburg, Ohio

Find Main Street and Bloomingburg Cemetery on this new aerial map. The cemetery’s story recalls the village’s work as an Underground Railroad center, helping people escape slavery and reach freedom.

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Detailed Map of Berkeley, Missouri

A new aerial map of Berkeley in St. Louis County, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Natural Bridge Road, Wabash Avenue and your own block, and learn how the town was first known as Kinlock, a post office on the Wabash Railroad.

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Detailed Map of Bethel, Ohio

Find Bethel’s familiar streets, Burke Park, and Acord Park in a modern aerial map with a vintage feel. Learn about founder Obed Denham and the town’s early fight against slavery.

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Detailed Map of Bellevue, Ohio

A new aerial map of Bellevue, Ohio, made in 2026. Find East Main Street, Southwest Street and Mill Pond Park, and learn how Henry Flagler started his business career here in 1844, long before he helped form Standard Oil.

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Detailed Map of Barnesville, Ohio

A new aerial map of Barnesville in Belmont County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find your street, then read how the Barnesville strawberry got famous and how the Watt car wheel works grew on Watt Avenue.

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Detailed Map of Ayr, Pennsylvania

A new aerial-style map of Ayr Township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. Find Great Cove Road, Websters Mill and Buchanan Trail, where the first Confederate soldiers killed in battle on Pennsylvania soil fell in June 1863.

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Detailed Map of Avon, Ohio

A modern aerial map of Avon in Lorain County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find Detroit Road, Avon Center and Miller Nature Preserve, and read how Norton S. Townshend helped Avon’s farms grow and helped found Ohio State.

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Detailed Map of Ashley, Ohio

A new aerial map of Ashley in Delaware County, Ohio, with West High Street, North Franklin Street and about 800 buildings. In 1891 Ashley was a railroad village with four churches, The Ashley Times, two regalia factories and a flour mill.

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Detailed Map of Ardmore, Pennsylvania

A modern aerial map of Ardmore in Montgomery County, made in 2026. Find Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore Park and your street, and read how the village was once called Athensville, when wagon teams stopped overnight at the Red Lion tavern.

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Detailed Map of Antwerp, Ohio

Explore Antwerp’s streets, Riverside Park and red building shapes on a new map. Read how a canal brought settlers in 1843 and the town got its name from Antwerp, Belgium.

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Detailed Map of Alma, Missouri

Follow Main, Waverly Avenue and West Fourth Street across this map of Alma in Lafayette County, Missouri, from Alma Central Park to the Lions Club ball diamond, and see how a 1910 county history listed the town.

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Detailed Map of Amherst, Ohio

Amherst, Ohio grew up around its sandstone quarries. This 2026 aerial map of the Lorain County city shows Amherst City Hall, Main Street, Quarry Road and more than 12,000 buildings with a vintage feel.

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Detailed Map of Albany, Ohio

A new aerial-style map of Albany in Athens County, Ohio. Find West Clinton Street, State Street and your own block, and learn how Albany’s academies, including the Enterprise Academy, drew families who valued school.

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Detailed Map of Aldan, Pennsylvania

A new aerial map of Aldan in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with every building in red. Find Oak Avenue, Magnolia Avenue and the other tree-named streets, and read the Slinky story from the state marker at Springfield Road in nearby Clifton Heights.

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Detailed Map of Marshfield, Missouri

Marshfield, Missouri was named for Daniel Webster’s home in Massachusetts. This new 2026 aerial map shows the town in Webster County, from Commercial Street and West Jackson Street to East Hubble Drive, with its buildings in red over soft green hills.

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Detailed Map of Sabina, Ohio

A modern aerial map of Sabina in Clinton County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find Washington Street, the Sabina Municipal Building and Sabina Cemetery, and read how the old Chillicothe Trace and two railroads helped the village grow.

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Detailed Map of Kimmswick, Missouri

Kimmswick was laid out in October 1859 by Theodore Kimm and named for him. This new 2026 aerial map of the Jefferson County town shows Front Street, Market Street, the numbered streets, the green hills to the west and its buildings as small red shapes.

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Detailed Map of Mifflin, Ohio

See Mifflin’s streets, red buildings, green hills, and blue water on a new aerial map. Learn how its crossroad watering trough served stagecoaches before the Lincoln Highway came through.

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Detailed Map of Cecil, Ohio

Find Cecil’s streets, red buildings and green fields on a new aerial map. Railroad Street offers a link to the story of the county’s first railroad, built between Cecil and Paulding.

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Detailed Map of Cadiz, Ohio

Find familiar Cadiz streets among green hills and red building shapes. Then read about the town’s first July Fourth feast in 1806, when neighbors shared wild turkey, venison and bear meat.

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Detailed Map of Archbold, Ohio

A modern aerial map of Archbold in Fulton County, Ohio, with Sauder Village, Ruihley Park and North Defiance Street. Read how Erie J. Sauder’s barn woodshop grew, and how The Ohio Art Company began downtown.

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Detailed Map of Struthers, Ohio

A new aerial map of Struthers in Mahoning County, Ohio. Find Poland Avenue, Downtown, Yellow Creek Park and your own street, and learn how Ohio’s first blast furnace was built here in 1802 by the Eaton brothers.

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Detailed Map of St. Clair, Missouri

St. Clair, Missouri, as a modern aerial map with a vintage feel. See the green Franklin County hills, North Main Street and Old State Highway 66, and read the old story of a wayside inn called Traveler’s Repose.

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Detailed Map of Piketon, Ohio

Piketon began as Pike County’s first county seat, laid out on 40 acres from Elisha Fitch. This 2026 aerial map shows East Main Street, Zebulon Street, Fitch Street, the Pike County Fairgrounds and the blocks in between.

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Detailed Map of Mantua, Ohio

A modern aerial map of Mantua in Portage County, Ohio, with Main Street, West Prospect Street, a winding river and the old Mantua Station brick blocks downtown. Made by KNOWOL in 2026.

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