Mapping+the+History+of+New+England

Conduct a website and a literature search on the topic "Mapping the History of New England". Post your results below.

Website can be anything of relevance to our topic. The literature cited should be from an accepted scholoarly journal, like those listed below, and be published within the past 10-20 years: Cartographic Perspectives International Journal of GIS Cartographica Annals of the AAG


 * Websites** - list relevant websites below

Historic [|USGS Maps of New England] This Page has a great amount of historic maps dating all the way back to the late 1800's [posted by ch]

OldMaps.com This page hosts a variety of old maps from different states and you can further search for individual county and town maps. Many of the maps appear to be taken from the Boston Public Library. [Posted by NL]

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Massachusetts RR and Township Map This example is a map of MA published in 1879 and contains drainage, city and town boundaries, and all the information that would be needed for RR. The site has these types of maps for all over the world. [posted by sw]

[]. This site has plenty of historic information and maps of place in the Greater Boston area and northeast coast. Surf through the site to find locations and .pdf maps of historic locations. [posted by pm]

[] This is a unique site that I found with not only maps but also antique documents from all over New England including names of ownership and orignial surveying of town boundaries. [posted by jbean]

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/ma.htm This website gives general background information of Massachusetts. There is a link on the site to a large variety of maps, including historical maps, county and precipitation maps. [Posted by Katie Messer]

[] This website has rare maps of not only New England but the world as well. [posted by CC]

[|maps] this is an old map that shows many of the towns in mass but the thing that i find most interesting is all the towns around my town are listed on the map but my town isnt listed. [ posted by jon stearns]


 * Literature** - list what you found in the way of literature below

Land-Use History (1730-1990) and Vegetation Dynamics in Central New England, USA ; by David R. Foster ; Journal of Ecology, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 753-771 [posted by pg]

Emery R. Boose, Kristen E. Chamberlin, David R. Foster (2001) LANDSCAPE AND REGIONAL IMPACTS OF HURRICANES IN NEW ENGLAND. Ecological Monographs: Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 27-48 (can be found on the JSTOR database accessible from the college library webpage) [posted by ch] McFarland, Raymond (1911). //A History of The New England Fisheries: With Maps//. New York: D. Appleton and Company. [posted by sw]

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