Sanborn Maps® illustrate in outline form the site, size, shape, construction and building material of dwellings, commercial buildings, and factories. Details of buildings include fire walls, the location and number of windows and doors, style and composition of roofs, wall thickness, cracks in exterior walls, and makes of elevators.

Historical Collections ... relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Massachusetts, with geographical descriptions. [With illustrations.] BARBER, John Warner. Massachusetts. Old maps of Nantucket on OldMapsOnline.

Ferdinand Ewer’s 1869 Historical Map of Nantucket, by far the most visually-impressive and informative 19 th-century map of the island. Remarkable as well for its detailed treatment of the Wampanoag peoples who occupied it well before the arrival of …

Explore 83 historical maps of Nantucket County, MA from trusted archives. View in high-res, layer satellite & LiDAR, explore in 3D, and download or order prints.

Map provided by United States Geological Survey. in 1981. The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world..

This map of Nantucket depicts place names, roads, locations of historic and significant buildings, structures, and objects, and includes a dates of settlement of separate areas of the island that could be used

Historical map of Nantucket Creator: Ewer, Ferdinand C. (Ferdinand Cartwright), 1826-1883 Name on Item: surveyed and drawn by F.C. Ewer. Date: 1869 Format: Maps/Atlases Location: Boston Public Library Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection (local): Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection Subjects:

Map of the counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket, Massachusetts : based upon the trigonometrical survey of the state 1858 Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888

What should be put on a map of Nantucket? In this exhibit we present a selection of historic maps and nautical charts that suggest answers to these questions. The island’s ponds and hills, its town and villages, its location in the sea—these appear on many maps.

Features three columns of text breaking down the history of Nantucket from its discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 to the laying of the first communications cables between Nantucket and the mainland in 1886.