Groton, Massachusetts, 1886 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Groton, Massachusetts, 1886 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Groton, Mass. 1886
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Groton, Massachusetts, 1886
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Groton, Massachusetts, in 1886 was a quiet farming and village town in Middlesex County, settled in the 1650s and still shaped by its old meetinghouse green and scattered farms. The railroad had reached the region, and the Fitchburg line linked Groton to larger markets and to the mill cities farther east, so local farmers and small manufacturers could ship goods more easily than their grandparents could. Lawrence Academy, founded in 1793, had long made the town a center of schooling, and in the 1880s the newer Groton School, opened in 1884 for boys preparing for college, was drawing families from well beyond Massachusetts. Residents of that decade would have known Groton less for industry than for its schools, its open fields, and its slow, settled rhythm.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Groton, 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 | 8,176 × 4,960 px · prints to 27 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Groton, Mass. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488909 |
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