Dorchester Maps

The following maps of Dorchester are those most useful for property research. The Dorchester Historical Society owns copies, but many are available online at other institutions.

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

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

1858
Map of the County of Norfolk, Massachusetts
H.F. Walling
Published by Smith & Bumstead, Boston and New York
available online at Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9s161933d

There are some missing sections in the BPL copy, so you could also try

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~4241~340021:Map-of-the-County-of-Norfolk,-Massa?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:walling%201858;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=2&trs=4

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

1871

Harper & Brothers. Bird’s-eye view of Boston and surrounding area, Boston Public Library

http://maps.bpl.org/id/12071

1874
Atlas of the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, Vol. 3rd including South Boston and Dorchester. Philadelphia: G.M. Hopkins & Co., 1874. Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center

https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/206069

1884
Atlas of the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, Vol. 3rd including South Boston and Dorchester. Philadelphia: Geo. W. & Walter S. Bromley, 1884. Leventhal Map Collection at the Boston Public Library online.

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/book_viewer/commonwealth:tt44pv533#1/1

In 1884, some of Dorchester appears on plates L and M of the Roxbury atlas

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/book_viewer/commonwealth:tt44pv58g#1/1

and on plate D of the South Boston atlas

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv59r

1889
Atlas of the city of Boston. Vol. 5: Dorchester
Geo. W. & Walter S. Bromley
Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1889.
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/book_viewer/commonwealth:tt44pv65w#1/1

1890

Bird’s-eye view of Lower Mills. Boston Public Library

http://maps.bpl.org/id/10315

1890

Bird’s-eye view of Mattapan. Boston Public Library

http://maps.bpl.org/id/10157

1894
Atlas of the City of Boston: Volume 5: Dorchester, Mass. George W. and Walter S. Bromley
Philadelphia: Bromley, 1894
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv843

or

http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1898
Atlas of the City of Boston, Vol. 5. Dorchester, Mass. George W. and Walter S. Bromley..  Philadelphia, G. W. Bromley & Co., 1898

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv82j

or

http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1899
Atlas: Dorchester, West Roxbury, Brighton
J.P. Brown & Co.; L.J. Richards
Publisher: L.J. Richards, Boston

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv800

or
http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1904
Atlas of the City of Boston, Vol. 5. Dorchester, Mass.  George W. and Walter S. Bromley. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1904

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv94b

or
http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1910
Atlas of the City of Boston: Dorchester, Mass. George W. and Walter S. Bromley
Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1910
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pv886

or
http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1918
Atlas of the City of Boston: Dorchester. George W. and Walter S. Bromley.. Philadelphia: G. W. Bromley & Co., 1918

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pw04c

or
http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html

1933
Atlas of the City of Boston: Dorchester. George W. and Walter S. Bromley. Philadelphia: G. W. Bromley & Co., 1933

https://www.loc.gov/item/2008622000/

or

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pw849

or

http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/massachusetts-real-estate-atlases.html