Boston and Environs, Massachusetts, 1775 – Antique Wall Map
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Boston and Environs, Massachusetts, 1775. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Boston and Environs, Massachusetts, 1775
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Boston in 1775 was a crowded port of about 16,000 people on a narrow peninsula joined to the mainland by Boston Neck, with wharves busy with shipbuilding and the trade in fish and rum. That spring the town became the center of the imperial crisis, as British troops under General Thomas Gage held the peninsula after the fighting at Lexington and Concord in April, and colonial militia gathered in the hills around it. In June the battle of Bunker Hill, fought across the water in Charlestown, left that town burned and the surrounding countryside under arms. Many Loyalist families fled as the siege settled in, and for residents the harbor and shoreline towns on this view marked a city about to be cut off from the rest of the province.
| Created / published | 1775 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Original scan | 7,809 × 5,567 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MA Boston and Environs 1775 |
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