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Title: Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1858 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2009-08
  • Coverage: 1858

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the county of Norfolk, Massachusetts, based upon the details of the trigonometrical survey of the state; the details from actual surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling. Supt. of the state map. It was published by Smith & Bumstead in 1858. Scale [ca. 1:40,000]. This layer is image 1 of 4 total images, representing the northwest portion of the four sheet source map.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and school district boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages. It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Massachusetts
  • Norfolk County
  • Bellingham
  • Boston
  • Brookline
  • Canton
  • Dedham
  • Dover
  • Foxborough
  • Franklin
  • Medfield
  • Medway
  • Millis
  • Needham
  • Norfolk
  • Norwood
  • Sharon
  • Stoughton
  • Walpole
  • Wellesley
  • Westwood
  • Wrentham
  • Maps
  • Landowners
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.541302, -71.129346, 42.45992, 42.065987)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-71.541302, -71.129346, 42.45992, 42.065987)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888., Smith & Bumstead., Hitchcock, Edwin S., 1834-1862. Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1858 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3763-n6-1858-w3-sh1

Format

GeoTIFF