Woodbury Bird's Eye View Map - 129 Years Later

Since discovering the delicately hand illustrated O. H. Bailey "Bird's-Eye-View" Map of Woodbury, N.J. from 1886, I have often wondered what those lovely views outlining the map look like today. After some research and some quick Google and Bing Mapping, I had the answer. Presented here, without comment are the scenes as they look today from the exact vantage point wherever possible.

Draw your own conclusions... unfortunately you don't see a lot of adaptive reuse through the years but rather a good amount of tear-downs. Thankfully a few buildings remain to this day - exactly 9 out of 26 shown here.

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Please note this is the original location of the Constitution building
which later moved a few doors to the left and which is currently still standing

Cooper and Poplar Streets at Dusk

The skies at dusk were very dramatic back in the day! Actually, I've always enjoyed these sorts of colorized postcards, adds such a magic to an already beautiful scene.

Cooper St. looking West, Woodbury, N. J.

Not quite sure where Poplar Street is nowadays, it was most likely renamed. It appears that the street that was called Poplar Street is now Woodland Avenue. Looks to still be a dirt road in the photograph below.

Poplar St. from Cooper St., Woodbury, N. J.