South Acton, Massachusetts, 1886 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of South Acton, Massachusetts, 1886. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: South Acton, Mass. 1886
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South Acton, Massachusetts, 1886
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South Acton, a village in the town of Acton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, shows how a small rural community looked in 1886, when farming, local mills, and rail service still shaped daily life. Acton sat within easy reach of Concord and the greater Boston market, and the railroad that ran through the district carried passengers, freight, and farm goods in and out of the village. Factories and workshops along the Assabet River's watershed gave work to families who lived close to their jobs, while many residents still kept gardens, livestock, and orchards. The map's street plan, house lots, and church and school buildings record a community where neighbors knew one another's property by name, and a town that was modest in size but tied firmly to the wider state economy.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of South Acton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1886. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,360 × 4,688 px · prints to 25 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | South Acton, Mass. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488953 |
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