| Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
5333 | | Details | Howell and Graves | 1925 |
Early blueprint plat map for Muscle Shoals, Alabama |
Howell and Graves |
1925 |
LOC:53 |
| $675.00 | Howell-and-Graves | Early-blueprint-plat-map-for-Muscle-Shoals--Alabama | Very rare unrecorded cyanotype or blueprint plat map of a development near <b>Muscle Shoals, Alabama.</b> Includes at upper right a fine context map of the Tri-cities area of Florence, Sheffield, and Muscle Shoals showing the locations of four developments planned by Howell and Graves in context to other major developments (two nitrate plants and a dam), and area railroads. Dated within at February, 1925. (The city of Muscle Shoals was incorporated in April, 1923.)
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Howell and Graves went on to build the first City Hall, homes, and the Howell and Graves Jr. High School, now used by the Board of Education. The streets they platted on this map including Alabama Avenue and Sheffield Avenue are still in existence in SW Muscle Shoals. |
6561 | | Details | Howell and Graves | 1930 |
Florence Alabama Lakeside Highlands Blueprint Plat Map Muscle Shoals |
Howell and Graves |
1930 |
LOC:53 |
| $775.00 | Howell-and-Graves | Florence-Alabama-Lakeside-Highlands-Blueprint-Plat-Map-Muscle-Shoals | Rare original blueprint plat map of the Lakeside Highlands subdivision on the east side of Lake Wilson in the Muscle Shoals District at Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama. With a small scale inset context map (1 inch = 1 mile): "Muscle Shoals District Showing Location of Lakeside Highlands." G.P. Nicolopoolos Owner and Developer. Date ca. 1930.
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Drawn by W.A. Dealy, the map includes insets of a suggested tree-lined street section and a suggested business section designed by landscape architect Frank M. Button ("The highest type of Architecture is our aim.") Streets shown include the existing Lee Highway and Wilson Dam Highway (South Wilson Dam Road), and the proposed Center Drive, Shoals Boulevard, and Lakeside Drive, East Lakeside Drive and two bridle paths. |