East Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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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A window into the past: East Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1886, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: East Pepperell, Mass. 1886
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East Pepperell, Massachusetts, 1886
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East Pepperell, a village within the town of Pepperell in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, sat in 1886 on the Nashua River, whose falls had long powered the mills that gave the district its working character. Most households depended on textile manufacturing, on the farms and woodlots of the surrounding hills, or on the trades that served both. Mill work drew families into the village from the nearby countryside and from farther afield, and the houses, churches, and shops clustered near the water and the roads that led to the mills. Residents of the 1880s would have known East Pepperell first as a mill community tied to the river, a place where the rhythm of the day followed the factory bell and the seasons of the surrounding farms.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., c.h. vogt (firm) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of East Pepperell, 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 | 6,608 × 4,271 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | East Pepperell, Mass. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488898 |
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