Millers Falls, Massachusetts, 1880 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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This antique map of Millers Falls, Massachusetts, 1880 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Millers Falls, Massachusetts, 1880
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Millers Falls, a mill village on the Millers River in Franklin County, Massachusetts, sat in 1880 at the spot where the river drops over its namesake falls. That drop powered the wheels of local mills and gave the village its reason for being. By 1880 the Millers Falls Company was already making hand tools there, and the factory's work was beginning to give the village a name beyond the valley. Rail links along the river carried finished goods out and brought coal and raw materials in. Residents knew Millers Falls first as a working community, with its shops, churches and houses set close beside the water.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Millers Falls, Massachusetts, drawn in 1880. 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 |
| Original scan | 6,368 × 4,944 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488929 |
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