Category: Nature & Geography, Maps, Land grants
Item 102071
Map of early Greene, Lewiston and Sabattus, ca. 1790
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Location: Sabattus; Greene Media: Ink on vellum
Item 108848
Map and petition, Sandy River, 1798
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1798 Location: New Vineyard; Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Exhibit
Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
