River Street Neighborhood on Google Earth

Never been to the River Street Neighborhood? No Problem!

We’ve brought the historic neighborhood to your computer screen. Harnessing the power of Google Earth, you can take a virtual tour of the River Street Neighborhood from the comfort of your own home.

The Google Earth Tour below includes a description of some of the places discussed in the oral history interviews and in historical documents. You can also see photographs of the neighborhood from the past and present, and see how the neighborhood has changed throughout time as seen through historical maps.

How to use the River Street Virtual Tour

In order to use the this virtual tour, you will need to download Google Earth. Once you’ve downloaded Google Earth, you can use the tour however you like. If you’d like to see it again in the future, simply move the tour up to your “My Places” tab.

Here is a brief tutorial that demonstrates the tour and gives you an idea of what you can do. Enjoy:

NOTE: The tour currently does not work properly on an iPhone. We are working to address this problem. Sorry for any confusion.

Take a virtual tour of the River Street Neighborhood on Google Earth by downloading the following Google Earth file. Click below to download the Walking Tour:

Take the River Street Neighborhood historical walking tour

Click below to download the Historical Map files:

Check out historical map overlays for the River Street Neighborhood

Finally, You can subscribe to the River Street Digital History email list. You don’t have to subscribe to our list, but you will receive a confirmation email that will send you another copy of the Google Earth tour in case you have trouble opening this one. We will also email you when the tour is updated in the future.

Finally, we hate spam. Your email address will never be given away should you trust us with it.

Thanks,

Bill White

River Street Digital History Project

2014

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