Hebronville, Massachusetts, 1891 – 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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A window into the past: Hebronville, Massachusetts, 1891, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Hebronville, Massachusetts
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Hebronville, Massachusetts, 1891
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Hebronville, a mill village in the town of Attleboro in southeastern Massachusetts, is shown here as it stood in 1891. Attleboro had long depended on manufacturing, and by the 1890s the town and its neighbors were known for jewelry making, alongside textile and metalworking shops that drew workers from the surrounding countryside and from immigrant communities arriving in New England. Hebronville's mills and worker housing were clustered along the waterways that powered them, and the village's fortunes rose and fell with the demand for cloth and small metal goods. The people who lived there would have known the place first as a working village, where the mill whistle set the daily rhythm and a family's livelihood tied closely to the mill gate.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hebronville, Massachusetts, drawn in 1891. 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 | 6,530 × 4,999 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hebronville, Massachusetts |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488912 |
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