Dublin Core
Identifier
2006a-220
Title
Historical Maps of Worthington
Subject
Landscape
Description
This folder contains 3 maps and 2 pages of names and notes written about the early settlers and roads in Worthington. Nothing is known of the authors of this work so we have kept it together.
The first map is possibly a blueprint (ozalith) which shows Worthington (population 530) with parts of Cummington, Chesterfield, Peru, Middlefield. The lines around Worthington are drawn in red one location is colored in red. Is this possibly the ozalith map mentioned in a missing record (This is a blueprint (ozalith) map of land owned by Olive Cole and Clarissa Henry)?
The second map is of paper glued onto card stock, copyrighted by Geo. H. Walker and Co. It shows the proposed location of the Huntington and Westfield River Railway, showing possible connections with steam and electric railways in Western MA. According to this map Worthigton would have been involved as there is a red line extending from Huntington to Worthington Center. Both maps are in deteriorated condition
Included in this folder
A third map is a hand drawn sketch of Worthington, colored in green with black, green and red roads titled "Map of Worthington with place of residence of the First Inhabitants." On the map, which is on vellum, is written the following: "The township of Worthington was originally called Plantation #3. On the second day of June 1762 it was sold at auction in Boston to Aaron Willard. Later it was purchased by Col. Worthington of Springfield and Major Barnard of Deerfield. A few of the first settlers came in 1764. They were mainly from the central and eastern parts of Mass. and from Conn. In 1768 this territory was incorporated into a town and called Worthington, in honor of Col. Worthington who induces the early settlers to occupy the land, by the erection of a church and a grist mill, and assigning generous lots of land for ministerial and school purposes." Associated with this map are two papers, one with 76 names and one with notes about Samuel Howe's ownership of the Woodbridge house which was built in 1806 on the site where originally stood the Chapin house, a log cabin built by Samuel Clapp. (see Box 35 for town architecture).
The first map is possibly a blueprint (ozalith) which shows Worthington (population 530) with parts of Cummington, Chesterfield, Peru, Middlefield. The lines around Worthington are drawn in red one location is colored in red. Is this possibly the ozalith map mentioned in a missing record (This is a blueprint (ozalith) map of land owned by Olive Cole and Clarissa Henry)?
The second map is of paper glued onto card stock, copyrighted by Geo. H. Walker and Co. It shows the proposed location of the Huntington and Westfield River Railway, showing possible connections with steam and electric railways in Western MA. According to this map Worthigton would have been involved as there is a red line extending from Huntington to Worthington Center. Both maps are in deteriorated condition
Included in this folder
A third map is a hand drawn sketch of Worthington, colored in green with black, green and red roads titled "Map of Worthington with place of residence of the First Inhabitants." On the map, which is on vellum, is written the following: "The township of Worthington was originally called Plantation #3. On the second day of June 1762 it was sold at auction in Boston to Aaron Willard. Later it was purchased by Col. Worthington of Springfield and Major Barnard of Deerfield. A few of the first settlers came in 1764. They were mainly from the central and eastern parts of Mass. and from Conn. In 1768 this territory was incorporated into a town and called Worthington, in honor of Col. Worthington who induces the early settlers to occupy the land, by the erection of a church and a grist mill, and assigning generous lots of land for ministerial and school purposes." Associated with this map are two papers, one with 76 names and one with notes about Samuel Howe's ownership of the Woodbridge house which was built in 1806 on the site where originally stood the Chapin house, a log cabin built by Samuel Clapp. (see Box 35 for town architecture).
Type
Document
Date
1866/1899
Publisher
Worthington Historical Society
Date Available
2006-08-24
Medium
Paper
Mediator
swu
Abstract
Map - Miscellaneous Maps and Data Pertaining to Early Worthington
Source
Worthington Library Rice Room
Date Accepted
2007-03-24
Date Modified
2012-12-05
Has Part
Box 58
Document Item Type Metadata
Text
Historical Map of Worthington
Original Format
Paper
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