Historical Maps of Sudbury

1794 Map of Sudbury drawn by Mathias Mosman in 1795 described in Hudson History, 1889 Print available from SHS	1830 Map of Sudbury drawn by Wm. Wood Print available from SHS - more info below	My version of Sudbury in 1856 from H.F. Walling's Map of Middlesex County My oddessey with this map including info on Walling and other copies
Sudbury and Maynard, 1875 Beers Atlas of Middlesex County Print available from SHS my scans local: 1200, 2400, hi-res	Maynard & Sudbury, Walker, 1889 Also, South Sudbury, Walker, 1889	I assume this is from the 1908 Walker Atlas, since it resembles the Wayland and Framingham here. Middlesex County, Vol 3, Geo. H. Walker & Co, 1908 This image is from photographs Hi-Res (4500x3000) from the collection of Robert A. Maier
Town Center inset from Walling 1856	Sudbury Center 1875 (page) Beers Atlas of Middlesex County from the collection of Robert A. Maier	Sudbury Center, Walker, 1889 Hi-Res (3113x3852) scanned -jch
Mill Village inset from Walling 1856	South Sudbury 1875 Beers Atlas of Middlesex County Hi-Res (4232x3207) scanned -jch	1871 Massachusetts Atlas, Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis at David Rumsey Also: Good Image

USGS 1894 Topo @ 1800x1784 <> Same Map @ 2823x2798 <> from UNH Dimond Library

Town Of Sudbury 2002

Timeline of Early Maps:

Reconstructed Maps:

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Then and Now map was designed & produced by Charles Way the Architect of the new 1932 Sudbury Town Hall, to commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Town in 1939. According to news articles I have read about the Celebration. The original found its way to the Newton/Waltham bank (I think that was the name) where Pendleton's was for a short time at Mill Village. Dr. Bob M. got it from there, and it is as you photographed it on his wall. It is in color, it appears to be hand colored or painted, whereas all the copies I have seen were blue print type copies (blue on a white background) as we have in our Collection.

You have only a small section of the 1650 Map of Sudbury, that Sumner Chilton Powell had made for his book 'Puritan Village'. One of our SHS members in Rhode Island, collected & read every edition of Puritan Village that was printed while Powell was alive. Powell kept updating his foreword, and in one he stated that he gave the SHS his Maps. Ms. Caroline Miller called from R.I., and came up to look at them, and we discovered that because Forrest Bradshaw (late Town Historian) had written his initials on them, they were in his Collection. Chuck Z. (our Tech man, whom you have met) then photographed them, and using I believe a GPS maps joined Sudbury & Wayland, and printed it, then made overlays of Powell's maps, so a founding family could find their ancestral plot or plots (from a list drawn up by Powell of the Landholders with a #) as of Sudbury circa 1650. Every founding family visiting, that has made use of the Map & overlays has wanted a reproduction of them, but they are very small (8"x10") and it is very hard to see the #s on the overlays. In talking with the publisher of Puritan Village, they expressed an interest in working with us to create a CD or DVD of the combined Map with digital overlays, that they would sell.

From: "YON - Jan C. Hardenbergh" 
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:07:10 -0500
To: Michael Buehler 
Subject: Advice on scanning Walling's 1856 Middlesex County map

First, Thank You so much for writing Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England’s Towns, 1849–1857 By Michael Buehler (PDF)
http://www.bostonraremaps.com/pdf/portolan%20spring08%20article%20reprint.pdf

On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Michael Buehler wrote:

--If you haven't already seen it, the 1830 printed Wood is based on a manuscript that is almost certainly held at the Mass. State Archives. It is likely that there are also 1 or more copies of the manuscript somewhere in town. For more information about the context of this map, see the article Early Plans of Massachusetts Towns on page 2 of one of my newsletters:

--I don't know a lot about the Walker firm, but I have handled piles of bird's-eye views produced by the firm. For a brief history of that firm, see Pierce and Slautterback's "Boston Lithography," p. 159. I don't care much for their maps, but they put out a large number of quite lovely chromolithographic views, of Boston, the White Mountains, Mt. Washington, Casco Bay, etc., etc.

Michael Buehler, www.bostonraremaps.com
Boston Rare Maps, 88 High Street, Southampton, MA 01073