If you grew up in Bart Township, went to school near Georgetown, or have family out along Valley Road, this map gives you a lot to find. It's a modern aerial view of Bart Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, made from modern data and printed with a vintage feel. Shaded hills roll across the whole sheet, and each building is marked as a small red shape. Georgetown sits near the middle, with Mount Pleasant to the west, Ninepoints to the east and Bartville near the bottom edge. Explore the print options for Bart.
From Georgetown to Ninepoints and Bartville
Start in Georgetown, where the buildings bunch up near the middle of the sheet. Georgetown Road runs through town on a long slant, from the top left corner down to the bottom right. Christiana Pike leaves Georgetown heading east. Mine Road heads north toward the top of the sheet. Lancaster Avenue runs south from town down to Valley Road. Now follow Georgetown Road southeast. It crosses Valley Road, which runs on its own long slant across the middle of the map. Keep going and you'll reach Ninepoints, where Quaker Church Road comes down from the north. Bell Road runs south below Ninepoints. Noble Road drops southwest from there to Bartville, near the bottom of the sheet, and Bartville Road passes through it. Back on the west side, Mount Pleasant sits beside Furnace Road. Many of the roads are labeled, and each red shape is a building, so zoom in on the preview and look for yours.
Bart Township has a story worth telling. Miners dug for copper here before 1744. For eighty or ninety years, four or five companies took turns at the Gap mines. None of them found enough copper to pay the bills. In 1849 a new company tried again. Its miners kept pulling up a rock they called mundic. They thought it was worthless, so they threw it away. Early in 1852, a new miner came to work at the Gap mines. He saw right away that the waste rock needed a closer look. Samples went to Boston and Baltimore, but the tests there didn't settle it. Then a Philadelphia chemist, F. A. Genth, tested a sample. It was nickel. The 1883 History of Lancaster County tells the story. That miner stayed on. By 1883 he was running the whole works, and the book names him as Capt. Charles Doble.
The nickel didn't pay at first either. In 1860 the owners shut everything down. For two years the shafts filled with water until it ran out over the top. In November 1862, Joseph Wharton, a Philadelphia Quaker, bought in. He pumped out the mines and rebuilt the furnaces. By 1883 the book called it one of the most complete nickel works in the world. When it was busy, about 150 people worked in the mines alone. The mines aren't labeled on this map. The same book puts the Nickel Mines school district in the northern part of the township. That's the top of this sheet, where Mine Road runs north out of Georgetown.
Here's one more thing to tell guests. Bart is short for baronet. The township was split off from Sadsbury in 1744. It was named for Sir William Keith, a baronet whose title was written as Bart. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1717 to 1726, the years when this land was first settled. Most of the first settlers were Presbyterians from Scotland and the north of Ireland.
A gift for anyone from Georgetown, Ninepoints or Bartville
Created by KNOWOL in 2026, this Bart Township map fits an office, a den or a farmhouse kitchen, anywhere someone can stop and trace a road home. The shaded hills come from USGS elevation data, and the buildings show up as small red shapes on the green. The title panel reads "Aerial View of Bart, Pennsylvania" with the coordinates 39°56' North, 76°05' West and a one-mile scale bar.
It's a thoughtful gift for someone who grew up in Georgetown or Bartville, went to school in Bart, or moved away and still thinks about these hills. Open the preview, zoom in and find the road you know. Shop the Bart, Pennsylvania map.
