Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Search Site Tips  Home  Activists  Dorchester Illustration of the Day  Agriculture  Architecture  Artists  Authors  Books  Cemeteries  Churches  Dorchester Historical Society  Entertainment  Entertainers  Industry & Commerce  Institutions  Maps     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     More on Maps..  Monuments  Myths  Postcard Images  Public Figures  Schools  Town History  Walking Tours		Maps  Dorchester Maps Note: if the quality of these maps is too low for your use, please get in touch. We have better quality images, but the digital files are larger than we feel comfortable putting on the web. Some maps depicting Dorchester appear below. These are not the only ones to include Dorchester. Anyone interested in this topic should consult institutions with large collections, such as the Massachusetts Archives, the Boston Atheneum, the Boston Public Library, etc. See especially the atlases below which each have many plates that are quite detailed. 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 1831 Map by Edmund Baker Wilson's 1849 Map Map of the Vicinity of Boston 1849 Map of the Vicinity of Boston, 1893 1874 Atlas South Bay Bird's Eye View South Bay 1777 1882 Atlas Plates 1884 Atlas 1889 Atlas 1894 Atlas 1898 Atlas 1899 Atlas 1904 Atlas 1910 Atlas 1918 Atlas 1933 Atlas Related Images: showing 8 of 928 (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 928 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: May 21, 2009