The
maps listed are from the County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts ...
F.W. Beers ..., published in New York by F.W. Beers in 1870.
Hampshire
County is the central county of the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. It includes
the rich bottom lands along the Connecticut River, the vibrant communities of
Northampton and Amherst, and the lovely hill towns to the east and west. It is
home to the Five College consortium: Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire
and the University of Massachusetts flagship campus. It is where northern New
England begins. It is our home turf. We know it well and what we don't
know, we can find out.
Maps
are mostly on single-page sheets and printed only one side. After the county map, they are
listed in alphabetical order by town. All are original. They are
generally in very good condition. A digital
picture can be supplied upon request.
How to
Order
| "Plan
of Hampshire Co. Mass."
Beers; 1873. Single-sheet; map is 11½ x
14". Wash color by towns. Very good. -
Shows roads, railroads and natural features at
3½ miles/inch. |
$35.00 |
 AMHERST.
Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 22 x 14".
Blue wash color with green highlighting. Slight
stain at title; short centerfold split
repaired; otherwise very good. - The university
and college town: UMass, Amherst College
appear; Hampshire would not be founded for
almost another century. Outlying property owners identified; shows roads with
distances between intersections; natural
features indicated. South Amherst inset. A
must for anyone in this historic town. |
$125.00 |
 AMHERST
Downtown. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; overall 14½" x
22. Green wash color with
highlights. Repaired centerfold split; a finger
mark in the margin; otherwise very good. -
Amherst center before it became an extension of
the UMass meal service. Shows the College Row;
the Emily Dickinson house, and many other
landmarks still extant. Some streets
names have changed; others have yet to
appear. The proposed Mass. Central
Railroad is nowhere near where it was built. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. |
$125.00 |
| In
Amherst: NORTH AMHERST & Cushman. Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is
11½" x 14. Rose wash with green
highlights. Very good. - Cushman is called
"North Amherst City". A
proto-Puffer's Pond appears. A non-existent
railroad is delineated.
Property owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. |
Out
of stock |
| BELCHERTOWN.
Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 22½ x 14".
Green monocolor wash to main map. Very good. -
A diverse and fast growing town, property
owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. A large inset of Belchertown
center showing building footprints
and lot lines. Smaller inset of Bardwell
Village; extraneous inset of Loudville west of
the river. |
$100.00 |
| CHESTERFIELD
& GOSHEN. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 22½ x
14". Blue and yellow wash color to each
town respectively. Couple of iron spots in
margin; very good. - Two of the scenic hill
towns; property owners identified; shows roads
with distances between intersections and
natural features. Insets of Chesterfield and
Goshen centers, West Chesterfield, and
Cummington West Village. |
$80.00 |
| CUMMINGTON.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 15 x
11½". Pink monocolor wash to main town
map. Very good. - Property owners identified;
shows roads with distances between
intersections and natural features. Large
insets of Cummington center showing building
footprints. |
$50.00 |
| EASTHAMPTON.
See Northampton & Easthampton. |
|
| EASTHAMPTON
Downtown. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet with foldout; map is 15
x 25". Pale yellow wash color with green
highlights. Very good. - Shows Williston
Academy, the mills and the ponds, the railroad,
etc. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. [Also see sheets from
Miller atlas below] |
$70.00 |
| ENFIELD
Center.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; overall 14 x 11½". Wash color to
3 plans. Very good. - 9
x 9" plan of Enfield center; property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines, mills, the railroad and
cemeteries.. Smaller plan of Enfield Upper
Village; also extraneous plan of Middlefield
center. [For Enfield town, see Greenwich
& Enfield] |
$30.00 |
| GOSHEN.
See Chesterfield & Goshen. |
|
| GRANBY.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Rose monocolor wash. Very good. - Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. |
Out
of stock |
| GREENWICH
& ENFIELD. Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Green and raspberry monocolor to
each town respectively. Very good. - These are
both "Quabbin" towns; eliminated and
flooded to provide water for metropolitan
Boston. Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. [For Greenwich center, see
Huntington center.] |
Out
of stock |
| HADLEY.
Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 14 x 22".
Soft green monocolor wash. Very good. -
The town before the Route 9 corridor became a
commercial wasteland. Show steamboat landing
for Mount Holyoke.
Property owners identified except in the center; shows roads with
distances between intersections; natural
features indicated. Detailed inset of
North Hadley. |
Out
of stock |
| HADLEY
Center. Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14½ x
11½", extending to two edges. Pale yellow
wash with green highlights. Very good. - Middle
Street & West Street, two of the longest
commons in New England are shown, now bisected
by busy Route 9. The Connecticut River loops
around at each end.
Property owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. |
Out
of stock |
| HATFIELD.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Rose monocolor wash. Very good. -
Property owners identified except in the center
& North Hatfield; shows roads with
distances between intersections; natural
features indicated. |
$45.00 |
| HATFIELD
Center. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; overall 22
x14½". Blue wash color with green
highlights. Short centerfold split and a chip
at the margin; otherwise very good. -
Connecticut River appears at edge; property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. Inset of North Hatfield area
showing same features. |
$55.00 |
| HUNTINGTON.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Blue monocolor wash to main
town map. Very good. - Town was once known as
Norwich. Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. Extraneous inset of Granby
center. |
$40.00 |
| HUNTINGTON
Center.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; overall 14 x 11½". Wash color to
3 plans. Very good. - 6½
x 11" plan of Huntington P.O. on the
Westfield West Branch. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. Smaller plans of Greenwich
center and Greenwich Village in the "Quabbin"
town. |
$25.00 |
| MIDDLEFIELD.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Raspberry monocolor wash to main
town map. Very good. - Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. Insets of Middlefield
Station- Bancroft P.O. & Factory
Village. |
$35.00 |
| NORTHAMPTON
& EASTHAMPTON. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 22½ x 15".
Wash colors to each
town. Centerfold splits repaired; creased upper
right corner; else very good. - Older
territorial divisions are delineated. At this
time Northampton included "Old Mountain
Division East Lots" or Mount Tom east to the
river, which is now part of Holyoke.
Outlying property owners identified; shows roads
with distances between intersections and
natural features. |
Out
of
stock |
| NORTHAMPTON
Downtown. Two double-sheets; each map is 14 x
22". Tan wash color with green
highlighting. Repaired centerfold split on both
sheets; overall clean and very good. - Here it
is, the heart of Noho. Shows Smith College just
beginning, the Clarke School, the "Lunatic
Hospital", many churches, the county jail,
a busy commercial and rail center. Many public
buildings are still extant. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. Business notices are on the
reverse of these sheets. [The sheets can be cut
and joined to form a complete composite of the
downtown, although the sheets will be slightly
offset so that the borders do not match.
This can be done on request for an additional
$30.00] - [See also Miller atlas sheets below] |
Out
of
stock |
| In
Northampton: FLORENCE.
Two double-sheets; each map is 14 x 22".
Green wash color with highlighting. Repaired
centerfold split on both sheets; overall clean
and very good. - Florence remains a vibrant
satellite of Northampton, well removed from
modern malls so that it remains an interesting
commercial center. Includes Bay State
Village & Paper Mill Village. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. [The sheets can be cut and
joined to form a complete composite of the
downtown, although the sheets will be slightly
offset so that the borders do not match.
This can be done on request for an additional
$30.00] - [See also Miller atlas
sheets below] |
$70.00 |
| PELHAM
& PRESCOTT.
Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is
14 x 22". Raspberry and green wash color to each
town respectively. Very good. - Prescott was a
"Quabbin", eliminated and flooded to
provide metropolitan Boston with water; part of
Pelham went also. Property owners identified; shows roads
with distances between intersections and
natural features. Insets |
$125.00 |
| PLAINFIELD.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Pale yellow monocolor wash to main
town map. Faint brown smudge in inset; else
very good. - Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. Insets of Plainfield center
and Swift River in Cummington. |
$35.00 |
| SOUTH
HADLEY. Single-sheet;
map is 14 x
11½". Rose monocolor wash. Very good. -
Outlying property owners identified; shows roads with
distances between intersections; natural
features indicated. |
Out
of Stock |
| SOUTH
HADLEY FALLS & SOUTH HADLEY Center. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet with foldout; map is 14
x 25". Wash color with green highlights to
both plans. Very good. - The large map is
of South Hadley Falls, with its canal around
the dam. The plan of the center is 13 x
7½" and shows Mt. Holyoke Seminary and
much of the land that is now Mount Holyoke
College. Property
owners identified; building footprints
and lot lines shown on both plans. |
$85.00 |
| SOUTHAMPTON.
See Westhampton & Southampton. |
|
| WARE.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is
11½ x 15". Green monocolor wash. Very good. - Property owners identified; shows
roads with distances between intersections and
natural features. |
$40.00 |
| WARE
Downtown.
Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 14 x
21½". Pale yellow wash color with green
highlights. Very good. - Textile industry
component is apparent. Property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. |
$45.00 |
| WESTHAMPTON
& SOUTHAMPTON. Beers;
1873. Double-sheet; map is 22½ x
14". Raspberry and green wash color to each
town respectively. Very good. - Property owners identified; shows roads
with distances between intersections and
natural features. Large inset of Southampton
center showing building footprints
and lot lines; smaller plans of Westhampton
center and Russellville. |
$75.00 |
| WILLIAMSBURGH.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Rose-tan monocolor wash. Very good.
- Property owners identified except along Mill
Brook [River]; shows roads with distances
between intersections and natural
features. |
Out
of stock |
| In
Williamsburgh: WILLIAMSBURGH Center;
Skinnerville; etc. Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; overall 11½ x
14". Wash color to 4 plans. Very good. - 9
x 7" plan of Williamsburg center; property
owners identified; shows building footprints
and lot lines. Smaller plans of Skinnerville,
down river from the center; also in
Worthington, Ringville & South
Worthington. |
$35.00 |
| In
Williamsburgh: HAYDENVILLE and LEEDS in
Northampton. Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; overall 11½ x
14". Wash color to plans. Very good. - 9 x
8" plan of Haydenville; property owners
identified; shows building footprints and lot
lines. Early smaller plan of Leeds. |
$40.00 |
 WORTHINGTON.
Beers;
1873. Single-sheet; map is 14 x
11½". Green monocolor wash to main town
map. Finger mark at lower right margin corner;
very good. - Most property owners identified;
shows roads with distances between
intersections and natural features. Inset
of Worthington center. |
$50.00 |
NORTHAMPTON and EASTHAMPTON
Below
are maps listed are from Atlas of the City of Northampton and the Town of
Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts ... D. L. Miller, C. E. ...,
published in Philadelphia by D.L. Miller & Co. in 1895. Reference:
LeGear (United States Atlases) L 1711.
In
the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, some consider Northampton to be paradise.
Without question, it is a vibrant community with Smith college, an active street
scene and a lively nightlife. Easthampton is now being swept into the cultural
main stream of the valley. These maps cover sections of each of these
cities.
Maps
are on double-page sheets with neat line dimensions of about 16 x 26 inches.
They are printed one side only. The scale is 200 feet/ inch on all plates. Color shows various cartographic features, such
as public and institutional grounds, building materials (wood, brick or stone),
water areas, and ward boundaries. Property owners are identified. Railroad
tracks are shown, as are water and sewer lines. All are original. They are
generally in very good condition except as noted. A digital picture can be
supplied upon request.
