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For the compilation of a more accurate state map, each town (and the city of Boston) was required by Resolves 1829, c 50 to make a town plan based on a survey, to be submitted to the state secretary's office. Plans were to be drawn on a scale of one hundred rods to an inch and were to include rivers, waterways, public and private roads, places of public worship, courthouses, other public buildings, distant from town center to Boston, bridges and ferries, falls, ponds, shores, harbors, islands and hills, mills and manufactories, mines, iron works, meadows and woodlands.
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Document identity
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b2776f147
label
Map of Wayland when named East Sudbury
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
b2776f147
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of Wayland when named East Sudbury
description
For the compilation of a more accurate state map, each town (and the city of Boston) was required by Resolves 1829, c 50 to make a town plan based on a survey, to be submitted to the state secretary's office. Plans were to be drawn on a scale of one hundred rods to an inch and were to include rivers, waterways, public and private roads, places of public worship, courthouses, other public buildings, distant from town center to Boston, bridges and ferries, falls, ponds, shores, harbors, islands and hills, mills and manufactories, mines, iron works, meadows and woodlands.
date
["March 1831"]
year
1831
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
b3908467x
creators
Grout, William Clapp, 1804-1876
institution
Wayland Free Public Library
collections
Wayland Historical Maps and Plans
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
United States
Wayland
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Wayland
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
4t64gr105
collectionArkId
b5647c18s
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.35
extent
1 map ; 43 x 59 cm
notes
Title from item or accompanying material.
The town of Wayland was known as East Sudbury from 1780-1835 when it was renamed Wayland. Wayland was the original site of the Sudbury Plantation (1638). In 1780 the Town of Sudbury split into Sudbury on the west side and East Sudbury (later Wayland) primarily on the east side of the Sudbury River.
Scale note: one hundred rods to an inch.
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b2776f147
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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a190b512b40ce340