Hexamer Digital Surveys

 
"The Hexamer General Surveys were prepared by Ernest Hexamer (and, it is suspected, with the assistance of diverse hands) between 1866 and 1895 and consists of, as near as can be determined 2855 numbered plates depicting various industrial and commercial properties.

Industrial properties are such companies as breweries, textile mills and print works, sugar refineries, petroleum yards, dye and chemical works, sawing and planing mills and meat houses. Commercial properties are large farm estates, freight yards, grain elevators and warehouses, movie theatres and concert halls, office buildings, stores, hotels and trolley barns.

Other properties include a university, newspaper building, a racetrack, a prison, an insane asylum and a hospital and almshouse.

By far the overwhelming majority are industrial and of these the textile mills predominate." - From A Consolidated Name Index to the Hexamer General Surveys by Joyce A. Post, Philadelphia, 1974

Surveys for buildings in and around the Central Susquehanna Valley Include:

COLUMBIA COUNTY

Bloomsburg Carpet Mills

James Magee & Co

MONTOUR COUNTY:

Montour Iron & Steel Co 1892 PAGE1  PAGE2

North Branch Steel Co Galvanized Iron 1891 PAGE1  PAGE2

Grove Grier & Co Rolling Mills & Furnace Danville Pa

There are a lot of great details & drawings on these surveys

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY:

Milton Steam Tannery 1879

Milton Steam Tannery 1881

Milton Steam Tannery 1888

The Steam Tannery in Milton Pa

Located along Elm Street
Opened in 1795, Burned in 1880, rebuilt.  

UNION COUNTY:

Lewisburg University 1879

Lewisburg Female Institute 1879

Lewisburg University became Bucknell University

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Ernst Emil Julius Ferdinand Hexamer (Koblenz, 29 May 1827 - Philadelphia, 3 December 1912) was a German-born American civil engineer. He was known as originator of a system of fire insurance maps, which by the time of his death were used by fire insurance companies in all parts of the world.