Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire, 1884 – 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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Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire, 1884 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Hillsborough-Bridge, Hillsborough County, N.H. 1884
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Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire, 1884
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Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire, in 1884 was a small village in the town of Hillsborough, set along the Contoocook River in the state's south-central hills. Its economy rested on water-powered mills and the surrounding farms, and the rail line running up the Contoocook linked local manufacturers and farm producers to Concord and to Boston markets. The town of Hillsborough was also the birthplace of Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president, and his connection to the district gave residents a point of local pride in the 1880s. Like many New England river villages, Hillsborough Bridge measured its growth in mills, churches, and schoolhouses, and its people would have known it as a working community shaped by the river's seasons and the train schedule.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), norris & wellge |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire, drawn in 1884. 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 | 6,336 × 4,864 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hillsborough-Bridge, Hillsborough County, N.H. 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489648 |
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