Baldwinville, Massachusetts, 1886 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Step back in time with Baldwinville, Massachusetts, 1886, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Baldwinville, Mass
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Baldwinville, Massachusetts, 1886
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Baldwinville, a mill village in the town of Templeton in north-central Worcester County, Massachusetts, sat along the Otter River in 1886, and its industry had grown up around the water power the river provided. Mills along the banks turned out goods that gave local families their livelihoods, and workers lived in the streets that climbed the surrounding slopes. A railroad through the valley connected the village to larger markets in the region, so manufactured goods and farm produce could move out with regularity. For residents of the 1880s, Baldwinville was a close working community, and its churches, schools, and village stores formed the center of civic and social life along the same streets that were drawn so carefully on the map.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Baldwinville, 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 | 7,968 × 4,944 px · prints to 27 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Baldwinville, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488878 |
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