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Source Description
Map depicts Wakefield and Reading around 1865, showing town boundaries, roads, and houses with property owners' names.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
c534g419j
label
Facsimile of Col. Nichols' plan of the First Parish of Reading, the present towns of Wakefield and Reading, plotted in 1765
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
c534g419j
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Facsimile of Col. Nichols' plan of the First Parish of Reading, the present towns of Wakefield and Reading, plotted in 1765
description
Map depicts Wakefield and Reading around 1865, showing town boundaries, roads, and houses with property owners' names.
date
["1889"]
year
1889
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
institution
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
collections
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library Historic Maps
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
Wakefield
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Wakefield
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Reading, Mass.
publisher
E.H. Gowering and W.P. Adden
Source extras
institutionArkId
b5645h65n
collectionArkId
b5645h66x
schema:latitude
42.5
schema:longitude
-71.0667
extent
1 map : b&w, ink and pencil on paper, mounted on linen, some hand coloring ; 49 x 38 cm.
notes
Map depicts Wakefield and Reading around 1865, showing town boundaries, roads, and houses with property owners' names.
"This map was made to show at what an inconvenient distance from the Old Meeting House many of the parishioners lived, and to prove the need of a new one" -- text from map.
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no
dcId
c534g419j
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
mediaId
81273997e441c9ec