Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1887 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1887, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Goffstown, N.H. 1887
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Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1887
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Goffstown, New Hampshire, in 1887 was a town of farms, village streets, and small mills strung along the Piscataquog River, a few miles west of Manchester. Its people managed local affairs through the annual town meeting, a New England tradition that still set roads, schools, and taxes by public vote. Many residents looked to Manchester for work, where the great Amoskeag textile mills on the Merrimack employed thousands and drew workers from the surrounding countryside. Life in the village centered on the church, the store, the schoolhouse, and the seasonal rhythms of planting and harvest. A drawing made that year captures a community still shaped by its farms and water-powered mills before the coming decades of change.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Goffstown, New Hampshire, drawn in 1887. 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 | 6,224 × 4,928 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Goffstown, N.H. 1887 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489643 |
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