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Anyone interested in this topic should consult institutions with large collections, such as the Massachusetts Archives, the Boston Atheneum, the Boston Public Library, etc. The maps at the Boston Public Library are available online at bpl.org, go to collections, then online collections and choose Leventhal Center collection. See especially the atlases below which each have many plates that are quite detailed. Boston and Dorchester Maps/ Atlases for current mapping - see City of Boston Assessing Online no date Blake, James E. Dorchester, Massachusetts, plans, assumed to be drawn by James E. Blake. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. French, Allen. A Collection of Facsimile Maps Pertaining to the Books and Papers ... (including Dorchester Neck) Mass. Hist Soc. Plan of Dorchester Neck. Mass Hist Soc Ic2 1616 Smiths Map of New England New England: the most Remarqueable Parts Thus Named by the High and Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Great Britaine Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/15676 1630 circa Map of English Towns and Indian Wigwams 1630 circa Map showing possible archaeological sites Zurawski, Carol and Lynn Whitney. Seventeenth Century Survey of Dorchester.Boston, Boston University, 1979. 1630 circa Rock Hill Zurawski, Carol and Lynn Whitney. Seventeenth Century Survey of Dorchester.Boston, Boston University, 1979. 1634 Woods Map of Massachusetts The South Part of New-England, as it is Planted this Yeare, 1634 Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/17462 1638 circa Map of meadows beyond the Neponset, i.e., Squantum Page 323 of Dorchester Town Records, Second Edition. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883. labeled as p. 31 of the original Dorchester Town Records, possibly from January 1637 or would this be 1638 1650 circa Map of northern plain Zurawski, Carol and Lynn Whitney. Seventeenth Century Survey of Dorchester.Boston, Boston University, 1979. 1660 ca. Conjectural lines of Dorchesters largest territorial expanse Modern guess at the boundary lines - available from Earl Taylor, Dorchester Historical Society 1661 John Oliver plat of land An Unfinished Tracing of Joshua Fishers Copy on Parchment of Olivers Paper Plat of Land in Dorchester Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12985 1677 John Fosters Map of New England (John Foster was a Dorchester resident) Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/n48212 1688 Boston Harbor Phillip Wells This Harbour of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/m8743 1692 Thomas Pound Map of New England A New Mapp of New England from Cape Codd to Cape Sables Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/explore/author/pound-thomas-0 1692 Jolliet Plan de Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/search/apachesolr_search 1697 Butcher, John. A map, plan or draught of the twelve divisions of land ... 1697. available online at The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public http://maps.bpl.org/id/11100 1705 Castle Island The Icqnographical draft of Castle Island where upon is built Her Maj.ties Castle and by Her Maj.ties Special Command named Castle William cituated in the bay of Boston three Miles S:E of ye town of Boston and South 3/4 of a Mile of ye Mean Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/n51492 1770 Hills Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/n48552 1775 Boston Harbor Des Barres A Chart of the Harbour of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10104 1775 A View of Boston from Dorchester Neck Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/rb15306 1775 Plan of the Neck and Environs Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71000917/ 1775 A Front View of the Lines including A View of the Country Towards Dorchester Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/rb15199 1775 Plan of the Town of Boston and Circumjacent Country Shewing the Present Situation of the Kings Troops & the Rebeles Intrenchments 25th July 1775 D Auvergne, Philip, Prince de Bouillon Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10783 1775 Plan of Dorchester Neck Drawn for the Use of the British Army in 1775 in DuSimonds History of South Boston, Boston, 1857. p. 31. 1775 recreation of plan of the redoubt erected to keep the British out of the main part of Dorchester Plan showing modern streets and the location of the Revolutionary Redoubt crossing Boston Street. 1907. compiled from Pelhams Map 1777 and from survey by Mather Withington. Owned by the Dorchester Historical Society See illustration 6714 1776 Jean de Beaurains Carte du Port et Havre de Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/rb16898 1777 Henry Pelham A Plan of Boston in New England with Environs. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/rb15243 1778 George Louis LeRouge. Plan de Boston. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10074 1794 Mather Withington Plan of Dorchester. 1804 Mather Withington. Map of South Boston showing conditins when the main part of South Boston was taken away from Dorchester and annexed to the city of Boston. Pen and ink and watercolor map. 112 cm x 54 cm Massachuestts Historical Society http://masshist.org/database/vierwer.php?item id=1724&img step=1&mode=zoomify#page1 (note there is an underscore between item id and img step) 1805 Dorchester Turnpike and Roads Adjacent. 1805 New England Historical and Genealogical Society, SL Dor 12. 1805 Boston map showing South Boston proposed bridge 1806 Boston map showing South Boston proposed bridge 1806 Wayne Caleb Perry. Boston with Its Environs Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10640 1819 John Grove Hales. Boston and vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10708 1820 John Grove Hales. Boston and vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/18026 1831 A Map of the Towns of Dorchester and Milton Edmund J. Baker available online at The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10320 1836 Mount Bowdoin proposed subdivision Thomas M. Mosley. Plan of Lots on Mount Bowdoin in Dorchester. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11128 1838 Perham, B. F. Rough Sketch of a Portion of the Dorchester Turnpike. 1838 New England Historical and Genealogical Society SL Dor 11 1846 Branch Railroads with the Old Colony RR 1850 Map of Dorchester, Mass. Elbridge Whiting for S. Dwight Eaton (Old Colony R.R. Depot, Boston) Tappan & Bradford’s Lithography, Boston available online at The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11129 1850 Plan of South Bay 1850 S. Dwight Eaton. Map of the Old Colony Rail Road Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3761p.rr005060/ 1850 Woodland Cemetery in Dorchester and Roxbury published by Tappan & Bradford Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11185 1852 Boston Harbor 1852 McIntyre map of Boston - shows a little bit of Dorchester H. McIntyre. Map of the City of Boston and Immediate Neighborhood Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10180 1852 Sidney Map of the city and vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/14602 1853 J.C. Sidney. Map of the City and Vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10632 1853 Henry Francis Walling. Map of Norfolk County Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10904 1854 Massachusetts. Board of Harbor Commissioners. Plan of South Bay Showing the Harbor Commissioners Lines Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12664 1854 Massachusetts. Board of Harbor Commissioners. Plan of Neponset River and part of Dorchester Bay Showing the harbor Lines proposed by the Commissioners. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12662 1855 J.H. Colton. Map of Boston and Adjacent Cities Shows Washington Village are that became part of Boston in the the 1850s Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/m8775 1858 Map of the County of Norfolk, Massachusetts H.F. Walling Published by Smith & Bumstead, Boston and New York available online at www.davidrumsey.com 1860 Anson J. Stone. Hyde Park and Fairmount in Dorchester and Milton Norfolk Co. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11183 1860 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1860 Walling, H. F. Map of Boston and the Country Adjacent. 1860 Hist NE Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10700 1863 Crafts, N. Henry. Map of the City of Boston. 1863 Hist NE 1863 Plan of Boston and Its Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11009 1863 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10042 1866 Map of the City of Boston and Its Environs H.F. Walling available online at The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10121 1866 Alexander Wadsworth. Plan of house lots for sale on Savin Hill Avenue Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11160 1867 Boston Map Company. Map of Boston (As it should be) and the Country Adjacent. 1867. SPNEA 1867 Lake, D. J. Map of Boston and Its Environs. 1867. Hist NE 1867 Nautical Chart of Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1867 Plan of Mount Hope Cemetery Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11188 1868 E.P. Dutton & Co. A New & Complete Map of the City of Boston, with Part of Charlestown, Cambridge, Brookline, Dorchester &c. Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11021 1869 Boston Almanac. Boston and Its Vicinity. 1869. Hist NE 1869, corrected 1870 Thomas W. Davis. Plan of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11034 1870 Boston. Engineering Dept. Plan of the Town of Dorchester available online at The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11126 1870 Map of Boston, Showing Health Districts and Undrained and Drained Land Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11032 1870 Birds eye view of Boston showing Castle Island Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10045 1870 A. J. Johnson. Boston and vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10994 1870 David Granger & Son. Plan of Real Estate Belonging to T.W. and J.H. Cox Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11162 1870 Plan of house lots in Ward 16 owned by Samuel B. Pierce Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11161 1870 Plan of lots belonging to BP Cunningham Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11159 1871 Harper & Brothers. Birds-eye view of Boston and surrounding area Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12071 1871 Boston and surround area showing horse RR 1871 Plan no. 1 of lots of Geo. D. Welles At Dorchester Historical Society 1871 Henry W. Wilson. Plan no II of land of George D. Welles (lots west of Washington Street) Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11172 1872 E.N. Winslow. Old Colony Railroad and Connections Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/n48153 1872 Birds-eye view of Boston and Its Environs Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10532 1872 T. Sulman. Birds-eye view of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10123 1872 Henry Francis Walling. Map of Boston and the Cuntry Adjacent Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11088 1872 Plan of land belonging to JM Pike (Euclid and Torrey Streets) Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11173 1872 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12066 1873 Parsons & Atwater. The City of Boston. Birds-eye view showing South Bay Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10664 1874 Atlas G.M. Hopkins At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1876 Luther Briggs & Co. Plan of the Lewis Pierce Estate. Suffolk County Registry of Deeds Book 1331, p. 277 1876 Henry W. Wilson. Plan of the cove between Savin and Commercial Point Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11182 1876 South Bay and Savin Hill Parks Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/1117 1877 John Bachmann. Birds-eye View from the North. Boston showing South Bay Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10124 1877 City of Boston Improved Sewerage Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12189 1877 City of Boston Improved Sewerage Plan Showing Region Drained by Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12191 1878 Boston by Sampson, Davenport & Co Boston Public Lbrary http://maps.bpl.org/id/12187 1878 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10046 1878 Cedar Grove Cemetery Dorchester Historical Society has pdf copy 1878 Plan of Mount Hope Cemetery Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11148 1878 Coombs, W. M Plan of Dorchester Showing Sewers and Contours. 1878. Mass Hist Soc Ic2 1879 S. Augustus Mitchell. Plan of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10112 1879 F. Kimball Rogers. Balloon View Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10381 1879 Sampson, Davenport & Co. Map of Boston for 1879 Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12186 1880 Boston City Surveyor. Plan of Dorchester, 1880 Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11125 1880 Plan of Dorchester Bay Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12984 1882 Atlas Bromley some plates At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1884 Atlas Bromley At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1885 Cedar Grove Cemetery Dorchester Historical Society has pdf copy 1889 Atlas of the city of Boston. Vol. 5: Dorchester Geo. W. & Walter S. Bromley Published by G.W. Bromley & Co. At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1889 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12064 1890 Birds-eye view of Lower Mills Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10315 1890 Birds-eye view of Mattapan Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10157 1890 Plan of Land in Dorchester belonging to Charles N. Mellen 1892 Frank O. Whitney. Plan of Land Owned by the Heirs of Frederick Clapp (Bellflower Street) Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11169 1893 copy of 1688 map Phillip Wells. This Harbour of Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/17482 1893 Geo. H. Walker & Co. Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10733 1893 William O. Badger. Plan of lots on West Selden Street, Dorchester Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/11163 1894 Map of Boston ...showing original territory of Old Boston Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12474 1894 Atlas Bromley Online at Boston Public Library and hard copy available at Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1896 An Outline Map of Boston Showing the Old & New Ward Lines Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12480 1896 Sampson, Murdock & Co. Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12478 1896 Geo. H. Walker & Co. Boston and Surroundings Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/14607 1896 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1897 City of Boston Plan of Columbia Road, showing Connection with Franklin Park and Marine Park Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12483 1898 Atlas Bromley At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1899 Atlas: Dorchester, West Roxbury, Brighton J.P. Brown & Co.; L.J. Richards Publisher: L.J. Richards, Boston At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. and at www.davidrumsey.com 1899 Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12486 1899 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10786 1901 Boston and Vicinity Metropolitan Park Commission 1901 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1902 Sampson, Davenport & Co. Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12580 1902 Boston drainage Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12569 1903 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1903 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/15212 1903 Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12568 1903 Boston quadrangle USGS repr 1942 1903 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/15212 1904 Atlas Bromley At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1907 Boston Suburban Book Company. Map of Dorchester, Roxbury and West Roxbury Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12565 1909 Boston and suburbs Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10788 1909 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1910 circa Dorchester Board of Trade Walker Lithograph Company. Map of Dorchester. 1910 Atlas Bromley At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1911 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1913 Boston and suburbs Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10781 1913 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12667 1915 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1918 Atlas Bromley At Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1919 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1921 Boston and Vicinity Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/12593 1921 Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10791 1921 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1923 Boston Harbor Boston Public Library http://maps.bpl.org/id/10464 1923 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1927 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1928 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1930 US Coast Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1930 Board of Trade. Map of Dorchester. 1930. In Dorchester Old and New, 1630-1930 1931 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1932 Hibbard, Thomas. Land Once Owned by the First Parish Church in Dorchester, 1932. Hist Gen Soc: Ms Dor 160. 1932 Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle 1933 Atlas Bromley Library of Congress online https://www.loc.gov/item/2008622000/ or at Dorchester Historical Society. The Society can provide digital scans. 1934 US Cost Survey Boston Harbor US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle There are later dates for Boston Harbor as well at US. Office of Coast Survey https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search#mainTitle Fire Insurance Atlases Certainly the most useful maps for tracing the development of Dorchester after its annexation to Boston are the so-called fire insurance maps. Griffith M. Hopkins produced an atlas of Boston including a volume for Dorchester in 1874 and again in 1882. George Bromley followed in 1884 with new volumes every five years or so. Richards produced one atlas in 1899. Richard Heath in From Pear Orchard to Multi-Family Housing: A History of the Marshall P. Wilder Estate. Jamaica Plain, 2003, cites a 1931 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Fire Insurance Atlases  Certainly the most useful maps for tracing the development of Dorchester after its annexation to Boston are the so-called fire insurance maps. Griffith M. Hopkins produced an atlas of Boston including a volume for Dorchester in 1874 and again in 1882. George Bromley followed in 1884 with new volumes every five years or so. Richards produced one atlas in 1899. Richard Heath in From Pear Orchard to Multi-Family Housing: A History of the Marshall P. Wilder Estate. Jamaica Plain, 2003, cites a 1931 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Illustrations of details of one small corner of Dorchester are given to show how the development of Dorchester proceeded over the course of 60 years after annexation. Some neighborhoods filled in a little earlier than our example at the corner of Carruth Street and Adams Street (now Gallivan Boulevard), but all of Dorchester was substantially complete by 1933 when the Bromley company issued its last Dorchester atlas. Topics Smith's Map of New England Wood's Map 1633 Blathwayt Atlas 17th century John Foster's Map of New England 1677 1775 Map Seat of the civil War South Bay 1777 1831 Map by Edmund Baker Wilson's 1849 Map Map of the Vicinity of Boston 1849 1871 South Bay Birds Eye View Whiting Map of 1850 1858 Map of Norfolk County 1874 Atlas 1882 Atlas Plates 1884 Atlas 1889 Atlas Map of the Vicinity of Boston, 1893 1894 Atlas 1898 Atlas 1899 Atlas 1904 Atlas 1910 Atlas 1918 Atlas 1933 Atlas Related Images: showing 8 of 1068 (more results) Here are some images from the Atheneum archive related to this topic. Click on any of these images to open a slideshow of all 1068 images. Feedback Do you know something about this topic? Do you have other pictures or items or knowledge to share? What about a personal story? Are you a collector? Do you have questions? Contact us here. Created: July 24, 2003   Modified: June 30, 2016