1861 Digital Atlas of Centre County
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/1861map/
The earliest known map of Centre County is the 1861 Tilden map. Now in digital format, the viewer can access the entire map or click on a specific Centre County locale for a detailed close-up.
At 1,115 square miles, Centre County is the fifth largest county in Pennsylvania in land area. It has thirty-six government municipalities (twenty-five townships and eleven boroughs) and nearly one hundred towns and villages. The oldest, Aaronsburg, was laid out in 1786. Discovery of high quality iron ore and rich agricultural land brought settlement to the region in the 18th century. In 1855, the Centre Region lobbied for and won the placement of the State Agricultural Society’s Farmers’ High School, now known as Penn State University.
Originals of the map are housed in the Penn State University Archives, the Special Collections Library, 104 Paterno Library, University Park campus.
The digital Tilden map is a collaborative effort Penn State's University Archives, Digitization and Preservation, Department for Information Technologies, and Cataloguing and Metadata Services.
Additional Penn State building maps and historical information can be viewed at the University Park Campus History Digital Archives at http://www.psubldg.libraries.psu.edu/.