Farmington, New Hampshire, 1877 – 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 Farmington, New Hampshire, 1877, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the village of Farmington, Stafford County, New Hampshire 1877
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Farmington, New Hampshire, 1877
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Farmington, New Hampshire, in 1877 was a small mill-and-farm town in Strafford County, where the shoe trade and the railroad were reshaping village life. Shoe shops and small manufactories along the Cocheco River drew workers from nearby farms, and the arrival of rail service made it easier to ship goods and to reach the larger markets of Dover and Rochester. The town's fortunes rose and fell with those trades, so residents of the period measured progress in new storefronts, church spires, and the sound of a working factory. Neighbors also gathered for town meetings, Grange suppers, and the agricultural fairs that were common across the state in the years after the Civil War. The map captures that mix of farm land and village streets at a moment when the town was still defined as much by its fields as by its industry.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Farmington, New Hampshire, drawn in 1877. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,272 × 5,184 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the village of Farmington, Stafford County, New Hampshire 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489641 |
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