{"id":10915,"date":"2018-07-30T23:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T23:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?page_id=10915"},"modified":"2022-01-04T23:46:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:46:41","slug":"maps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/online-collections\/maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few maps of Kingston, from 1795 to 1903, that show identifiable buildings. Links will open or download a pdf map, depending on your browser. Some of these scans have been copied from other sites or have been isolated from atlases; both the sources and the full volumes are linked in the description.<\/p>\n

See more recent\u00a0Kingston maps<\/a> and the\u00a0online GIS<\/a>\u00a0on the Town’s\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
\"Plan of the Town of Kingston,\" 1795<\/a><\/td>\"Detail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1820-1830 \"Five School Districts\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Town of Kingston<\/a> and the Village<\/a> (center of town), two details from \"Map of Plymouth County,\" by Henry Francis Walling, D.R. Smith & Co., Publisher,\u00a0 1857. A copy of this large wall map hangs in the Selectman's Office at the Town Hall. The Library of Congress has a digital copy here<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Map of the Town of Kingston,\"<\/a> E.N. Boyden, E.B. Stillings & Co. Publisher, 1876. The numbers on the map refer to this \"Key to the Map\"<\/a> listing owners and occupants, which can be searched in this transcription<\/a> . <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Town of Kingston<\/a>;\u00a0the Villages of Kingston and Rocky Nook<\/a>; and Residences, three images<\/a> from the Atlas of Plymouth County, Massachusetts<\/em>, Justin Winsor. George H. Walker & Co., Publisher, 1879. Scans are from this atlas<\/a>*.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bird's-eye \"Village of Kingston,\"<\/a> A. F. Poole, Publisher, 1885. Scan from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boundaries of Kingston<\/a>, Topographical Survey Commission, 1889. The scan is from the full volume<\/a>*.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Town (Plate 11)<\/a> and Village (Plate 13)<\/a> from the New Topographical Atlas of Surveys: Plymouth County<\/em>, L. J. Richards, Springfield, Ma., Publisher, 1903. Scans are from the full atlas<\/a>*. A great browsing version resides at the Internet Archive,<\/a\/> thanks to the Clement C. Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State University<\/a>
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Map of Evergreen Cemetery<\/a>, 1914, updated 1941. For lookups by name, please use the form on the Cemeteries page<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Items marked * are from the State Library’s amazing collection of Real Estate Atlases<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few maps of Kingston, from 1795 to 1903, that show identifiable buildings. Links will open or download a pdf map, depending on your browser. Some of these scans have been copied from other sites or have been isolated from atlases; both the sources and the full volumes are linked in the description. … <\/p>\n

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