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Title: West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1831 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2006-04
  • Coverage: 1831

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of West-Bridgewater, Mass. It was published by Senfelder Lith. Co. in Apr. 1831. Scale [ca. 1:20,000]. Covers the town West Bridgewater and a portion of the City of Brockton, Masachusetts. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries and more. 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
  • West Bridgewater
  • Brockton
  • Maps
  • Landowners
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.09129, -70.951153, 42.079362, 41.958948)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-71.09129, -70.951153, 42.079362, 41.958948)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Senfelder Lith. Co. West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1831 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-matwn-3764-w46-1831-s4

Format

GeoTIFF