Maps

Touring the Rittenhouse-Tulpehocken section of Germantown Through Maps

For a closer look click on the maps below:

From the Map of Germantown, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Philadelphia: 1998).

From the 1871 maps in Atlas of the late borough of Germantown, Twenty-Second Ward, City of Philadelphia, drawn from official records, private plans, deeds and actual surveys by H.W. Hopkins (Philadelphia, 1871).

Other maps of Germantown are listed below in chronological order under the name of the repository.

The Germantown Historical Society map and atlas collection includes the following items relating to Germantown:

Map of Germantown and Creesam Townships, Matthaias Zimmerman, 1746; copied by Christian Lehman, 1766; copied by Joseph Lehman, 1824; Robeson Lea Perot, 1907.
Township Map of Germantown by J.C. Sidney, C.E.; R.P. Smith Publisher in first half of nineteenth century].
Atlases of the 22nd Ward by the following mapmakers:
- H.W. and G.M. Hopkins (1871, 1876, 1885)
- Bromley (1889, 1911, 1923)
- J.L. Smith (1906, includes 22nd and 42nd Wards)
- Franklin (1955).

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania map and atlas collection includes the following items relating to Germantown:

Maps of Germantown and Creesam Townships, 1766, Copied by Christian Lehman from a map by Matthaias Zimmerman, 1746.
An original map on parchment of Germantown showing the location of houses (31 1/2" x 26 1/2").
Plan of the borough of Germantown drawn after a survey made in Mar 1839 by J. King and C.E. Wister.
Map of the borough of Germantown from actual survey, by J.C. Trautwine and S.W. Mifflin, 1851.
Atlases of the 22nd Ward by the following mapmakers:
- H.W. and G.M. Hopkins (1871, 1876, 1885)
- Bromley (1889, 1899, 1911, 1923)
- J.L. Smith (1906, includes 22nd and 42nd Wards)
- Franklin (1936, includes the 50th and parts of the 22nd, 42nd and 49th Wards).
Insurance atlases by Hexamer and Lochner, and Sanborn (volumes 22 and 23) covering the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Germantown Avenue-High Street to Allens Lane, [1979] Development Plan, prepared by the City of Philadelphia for neighborhood organizations.

At Temple University's Urban Archives may be found:

[1963] Planning Study of Central Germantown for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission by Henry J. Magaziner and Wright, Andrade, Amenta, and Gane - Associated Architects.

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