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Blue print ink on a beige background. Includes fourteen images of town land marks. Reproduction of the original painting by Charles Converse Way, native of Sudbury Massachusetts in 1939. First insert map show the first roads in Sudbury (now Wayland center). Second insert map shows the north part of Sudbury from the Sudbury River boundary at Sherman Bridge Road to the west. Third insert map shows the 1794 map created by Mathias Mossman for the General Court. The large center map Sudbury was done in 1939. Neighborhoods and geographical spots are noted. Homeowners and businesses are shown. Also noted are some of the firsts that occurred in town like electric lighting or the telephone connection. Originally housed at the Guaranty First Trust Company at the Millage Village Shopping Center, in Sudbury.

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wd378f34w
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Sudbury then and now
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map
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1
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wd378f34w
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Sudbury then and now
description
Blue print ink on a beige background. Includes fourteen images of town land marks. Reproduction of the original painting by Charles Converse Way, native of Sudbury Massachusetts in 1939. First insert map show the first roads in Sudbury (now Wayland center). Second insert map shows the north part of Sudbury from the Sudbury River boundary at Sherman Bridge Road to the west. Third insert map shows the 1794 map created by Mathias Mossman for the General Court. The large center map Sudbury was done in 1939. Neighborhoods and geographical spots are noted. Homeowners and businesses are shown. Also noted are some of the firsts that occurred in town like electric lighting or the telephone connection. Originally housed at the Guaranty First Trust Company at the Millage Village Shopping Center, in Sudbury.
date
["1939"]
year
1939
rights
Rights status not evaluated.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
identifierLocal
b39072150
creators
Mossman, Mattias, 1749-1819
institution
Wayland Free Public Library
collections
Wayland Historical Maps and Plans
subjects
History
Way, Charles Converse, 1879-1965
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
Sudbury
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Sudbury
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1
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import
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4t64gr105
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b5647c18s
schema:latitude
42.3833
schema:longitude
-71.4167
extent
1 map ; 50 x 44 cm
notes
Title from item or accompanying material.
Scale not given.
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no
dcId
wd378f34w
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map
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