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With Boston’s rising population and increased demand for housing, the Boston Land Company began to develop former marshland in East Boston in the 1880s, including Hog Island (also called Breed’s Island) which became Orient Heights. A promotional map from the Boston Land Company and brochure from the East Boston Company, formed to oversee the residential and commercial development of the neighborhood, highlight the opportunity to own a single family home, away from the more densely settled neighborhoods of the North End and West End.
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Document identity
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js956m23t
label
Plan of Orient Heights, Boston, Mass
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
js956m23t
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Plan of Orient Heights, Boston, Mass
description
With Boston’s rising population and increased demand for housing, the Boston Land Company began to develop former marshland in East Boston in the 1880s, including Hog Island (also called Breed’s Island) which became Orient Heights. A promotional map from the Boston Land Company and brochure from the East Boston Company, formed to oversee the residential and commercial development of the neighborhood, highlight the opportunity to own a single family home, away from the more densely settled neighborhoods of the North End and West End.
date
["1894"]
year
1894
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003889
creators
Whitman, H. T.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Real property--Massachusetts--Orient Heights--Maps
Land tenure--Massachusetts--Orient Heights--Maps
Orient Heights (Mass.)--Maps
East Boston (Boston, Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
East Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Orient Heights
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston, Mass
publisher
Boston Land Co.
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
citySection
East Boston
schema:latitude
42.3667
schema:longitude
-71.0333
extent
1 map : col. ; 51 x 74 cm.
notes
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
Descriptive text and views on the verso.
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no
dcId
js956m23t
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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7cae1c401f010ebc