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30 Jun

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30 Jun

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L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye ViewsLucien R. Burleigh, son and namesake of the abolitionist minister Lucien R. Burleigh, pursued a markedly different career from his father, joining his cousins Charles C. Burleigh and Sydney Burleigh in the visual arts. He became one of...

30 Jun

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30 Jun

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Henry Francis WallingHenry Francis Walling (June 11, 1825 – April 8, 1889) was one of the leading American surveyors, cartographers, and map publishers of the mid-nineteenth century. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he studied and worked at the Providence Athenaeum before pursuing civil engineering and...

29 Jun

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Map By Samuel Ward Chandler Download High Resolution Map (PDF) Source:  Library of Congress and Digital Commonwealth Additional Maps...

22 Jun

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1847 Groton Maps by Caleb Butler These maps appear in Caleb Butler’s 1847 history of the town, appended in PDF format below Download High Resolution Map (PDF) Additional Information About This Map History of the Town of Groton by Caleb Butler, 1848, 546 pages. See...

30 Jun

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29 Jun

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Plans of Groton made by Caleb ButlerTo create a more accurate map of Massachusetts, the state legislature passed Resolves 1829, Chapter 50, requiring every town—and the City of Boston—to submit a detailed plan based on a survey completed within the previous five years. Drawn at...

08 Jun

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By Sanford Johnson “In conformity to a Resolve of the Legislature of said Commonwealth passed March 1st, A.D. 1830” *The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in an effort to take stock of community resources in the form of mills, schools, geologic features, roads and other aspects of the...

30 Jun

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Plan of Groton, Pepperell and Shirley, made by Oliver Prescott, Jr., dated September, 1794. For the compilation of a state map, each town in Massachusetts (including those in the five eastern counties now part of Maine) was required by Resolves 1794, May Sess, c 101 (June...