Historical Maps of Sudbury

Detailed maps of the whole of Sudbury chronologically: 1795 Mosmon, 1830 Wood, 1856 Walling, 1875 Beers, 1889 Walker, 1894 USGS Topo, 1908 Walker Atlas, 1938 Zoning, 1943 USGS & modern Town Map. The range of time between each map is interesting: 35, 26, 19, 14, 5, 14, 30, 5. . .

Book! Third Edition in 2020 Historical Maps of Sudbury, MA (previous 2nd Edition)

Map of Sudbury drawn by Mathias Mosmon Surveyed in 1794; published in 1795 Described in A.S.Hudson's History, 1889 Hi-Res quality print available from SHS	1830 Map of Sudbury drawn by Wm. Wood Hi-Res quality print available from SHS more info below	Sudbury in 1856 from Map of Middlesex County by H.F. Walling's My oddessey with this map including info on Walling and other copies Hi-Res quality print available from SHS
Sudbury and Maynard, 1875 Beers Atlas of Middlesex County Hi-Res quality print available from SHS my scans local: 1200, 2400, hi-res	Maynard & Sudbury, Walker, 1889 Also, South Sudbury, Walker, 1889	Sudbury from 1894 USGS (without border) 15 Minute Series< <> Larger
Atlas of Middlesex County, Vol 3, Geo. H. Walker & Co, 1908	Sudbury Zoning 1938 (hi-res)	Sudbury in 1943 USGS 7.5 Minute map (hi-res)

Town Center Historical Maps

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

Town Center in 1908 by Walker (hi-res)

Mill Village / South Sudbury

Mill Village inset from Walling 1856

South Sudbury 1875 Beers Atlas of Middlesex County Hi-Res (4232x3207) scanned -jch

South Sudbury, Walker, 1889 Hi-Res Scanned at Goodnow Library

South Sudbury 1908 Walker (hi-res) See Also Walker 1889

 

Sudbury in 1707 by Jo Brigham, petitioner for the West Precint Mass Archives Page listing the map More info in Notes (hi-res)

Sudbury in Osgood Carleton's Atlas from 1802. The Mosmon map, was created in accordance the 1974 Massachussetts Statute requiring each town to survey its land for this purpose.

1871 Massachusetts Atlas, Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis at David Rumsey Also: Good Image

Town Of Sudbury 2002

Timeline of Early Maps Showing Sudbury:

Reconstructed Maps:

These are low res because I do not have permission to use, so, these are just teasers...

Map Of Sudbury 1676 A. S. Hudson

Links:

Notes:

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