NEW – Plymouth County MA 1857 Town Maps
August, 2025, we have “chopped up” the magnificent 1857 wall map of Plymouth County Massachusetts into 80+ separate Town Maps, villages, pictures, and tables.
The original map is bedsheet sized, 5 foot square.
But first, using Photoshop, we improved our scan of the original wall map
Here are before and after images.
This improvement makes it possible for us to offer large prints
After
Here’s the lower left corner of the 1857 map. The map “proper” is to the right, the colored areas, showing the Towns of Mattapoisett, Marion etc.
On the left are the village insets. I have enlarged Sippican and Old Landing in this image. There are 47 such village maps.
The 19th century map makers would make village inset maps where there was a good population.
That Sippican and Old Landing merited inset maps is a testament to their prosperity.
The 1857 county wall map was a business venture. The wall maps were sold for about $5.00 in 1857 dollars.
A main selling point would be that “your house is on this fine wall map…”
In the Town of Bridgewater, then and now, is a village called Scotland. It’s on busy Route 104.
The village inset map of Scotland, Bridgewater, Mass in 1857
Where is Joppa ?
This busy 1857 village is now called Elmwood, on Route 18 in the Town of East Bridgewater
The center of Joppa (now Elmwood)
Daniel Webster’s house in Marshfield is pictured on the 1857 map.
This house burned 20 years later. The site has a newer house today.
The Webster house is located on the map. as is the Winslow Burying Ground where Webster was interred after his 1852 death.
Not sure what “D. Webster’s Observatory” means…
Our Town of Marshfield print is pictured here. The Webster house is beneath the “17”.
“Landing of the Pilgrims 1620″ is one of the 13 pictures on the 1857 map.
“Pilgrim Rock” on the 1857 map…
Now we call it “Plymouth Rock”
We made a special “Central Plymouth” print of the downtown area of Plymouth.
Look at all the wharves in use in 1857.
One of our 47 village prints has Plymouth Village and the business directories.
We chopped it out of the wall map and added some margin to make a square print.
See below
We created a 2nd version of Plymouth Village omitting the Business Directories so the map itself is larger.
We added a Wharves Inset
An odometer factory is on the Middleborough map.
See below
A wheeled odometer was used to measure distances for the Plymouth County map.
- List of Maps 1 1 ABINGTON 2 Abington Centre 3 East Abington 4 North Abington 5 South Abington 6 2 BRIDGEWATER 7 Bridgewater 8 Scotland 9 3 CARVER 10 North Carver 11 4 DUXBURY 12 Duxbury 13 5 EAST BRIDGEWATER 14 East Bridgewater Center 15 Joppa 16 Northville 17 6 HALIFAX 18 7 HANOVER 19 Assinnippi 20 Hanover Four Corners 21 North Hanover 22 8 HANSON 23 9 HINGHAM 24 Hingham Centre & S.Hingham 25 Hingham Village 26 near Cohassett 27 10 HULL 28 11 KINGSTON 29 Kingston 30 Rocky Nook 31 12 LAKEVILLE 32 13 MARION 33 Old Landing 34 Sippican 35 14 MARSHFIELD 36 North Marshfield 37 South Marshfield 38 15 MATTAPOISETT 39 Mattapoisett 40 16 MIDDLEBORO 41 Eddyville & Waterville 42 Middleboro Four Corners 43 Namasket 44 Titicut 45 17 NORTH BRIDGEWATER 46 North Bridgewater / Campello 47 Northwest Bridgewater 48 18 PEMBROKE 49 Bryantville 50 East Pembroke 51 19 PLYMOUTH 52 Plymouth/Business Directory/Chiltonville 53 Wellingsly 54 20 PLYMPTON 55 Plympton Centre 56 Winetuxet 57 21 ROCHESTER 58 22 SCITUATE 59 Scituate Center 60 Scituate Harbor 61 23 SOUTH SCITUATE 62 Part of South Scituate 63 Queen Anns Corner 64 South Scituate 65 24 WAREHAM 66 Agawam 67 Wareham Narrows 68 25 WEST BRIDGEWATER 69 Cochesett 70 West Bridgewater 71 Geological Map
