Beverly, Massachusetts Maps

"Plan of Ward Five, Beverly, Mass.
showing 'Old Farmers Grant' [of 1635]"
November, 1929
Albert H. Richardson, City Engineer

The Old Planters of Beverly in Massachusetts and the Thousand Acre Grant of 1635, Alice Gertrude Lapham, 1930, inside back cover.

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"Map of Ancient Beverly, 17th Century."
Drawn by Samuel W. Balch.
Date: unspecified

Genealogy of the Balch Families in America, Galusha Burchard Balch, 1897, vol. 1, p. 17.

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Detail from previous map, "Map of Ancient Beverly, 17th Century," by Samuel W. Balch.

This shows the curvy nature of old Balch street, whose route was once attributed to someone following the wanderings of an old cow.

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"Showing the Approximate Locations of the Earliest Houses in Beverly"
Illustrator: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified

The Old Planters of Beverly in Massachusetts and the Thousand Acre Grant of 1635 , Alice Gertrude Lapham, 1930, frontispiece.

Numbering and legend redrawn by Robert Raymond in smaller images for legibility.

Detail from "Map of Beverly"
Illustrator: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified

The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume II, 1638-1670, Sidney Perley, 1926, p. 417.

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Available online at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~raymondfamily/ OldPlantersMap.html (if necessary, remove embedded spaces in the URL).

"Map of Salem Village, 1692."
By W. P. Upham.
1866.

Salem Witchcraft; with an account of Salem Village... , Charles W. Upham, 1867.

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Available online at http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/maps/index.html with index for numbered place names and properties.

"Beverly in 1700, No. 1"
Illustrator: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified

Wenhem Pond is at the top of this map.

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, "Salem in 1700," Sidney Perley, 1919, vol. LV, p. 82.

"Beverly in 1700, No. 2"
Illustrator: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified

Shoe Pond of Bass River is on the left of this map.

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, "Salem in 1700," Sidney Perley, 1919, vol. LV, p. 208.

Detail from "Beverly, 1872."

Atlas of Essex County,  Worley & Bracher (Engravers), D.G. Beers & Co. (Publisher), Philadelphia, 1872, p. 28? 97?

The previous map is a detail from this map. This is just a small image to give you an idea of the color and composition of the whole map.

"View of Beverly. Massachusetts. 1886."
W. A. Greenough & Co.
1886?

North Beverly is not visible in this bird's eye perspective. This map is not to scale.

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Available online from the Library of Congress at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3764b.pm002714 .

Detail of Beverly from "Salem, MA Quadrangle," USGS 15 minute series.
Edition of October 1893. Surveyed 1886. Reprinted 1940.
Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer.

Detail is from the southwest quarter of the quadrangle.

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Available online as part of the University of New Hampshire Dimond Library online collection of Historic USGS Maps of New England and New York. See http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/Salem.htm .

Essex County, Massachusetts in 1895.
Copyright 1895, by Rand, McNally & Co.

Published in Atlas of the World(?), Rand, McNally & Co., 1895.

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Available online as part of the 1895 U.S. Atlas Project at the Livingston County MI-USGenWeb Site. See http://www.livgenmi.com/essexMA.htm .

Beverly about 1949. Composed by Robert Raymond.

Left portion of map is from "Salem Quadrangle," USGS 7.5 minute series. Revised 1949. Surveyed 1942. Detail from northeast quarter of the quadrangle.

Right portion of map is from "Marblehead North Quadrangle," USGS 7.5 minute series. Edition of 1945. Revised in 1950. Reprinted 1951 with corrections. Surveyed 1942. Detail from northwest quarter of the quadrangle.

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Quadrangles available online as part of the University of New Hampshire Dimond Library online collection of Historic USGS Maps of New England and New York. See http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/Salem7.5MA.htm and http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/MarbleheadNorth7.5MA.htm.

Beverly, Massachusetts area in 1985, USGS topographic map, 1 July 1985, Microsoft Terraserver online database, 3 Aug. 2000 <<http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/>>.

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Available online from Microsoft Terraserver at http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?t=2& s=12& x=432& y=5892& z=19& w=2 (if necessary, remove embedded spaces in the URL).

Beverly, Massachusetts area in 1995, Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS) aerial photograph, 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MassGIS online database, 6 July 2000 <<http://ortho.mit.edu>>.

The photograph covers from Wenham Lake on the north to Shoe Pond on the south. *The thumbnail shows the 2nd Congregational Church on the NE corner of Cabot and Conant.

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Available online from MIT at http://ortho.mit.edu/nsdi/seamless6.cgi?zoom=8& x0=249987& y0=924936& action=zoom40& pwidth=400& pheight=300 (if necessary, remove embedded spaces in the URL).