Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Gouldsboro

Barcode: 58568

Publishing Location: Gouldsboro, Maine

Brief Description: "This plan represents 3/4 of the town of Gouldsboro surveyed in 1798, land down by a scale of twenty chains to an inch."   The 1798 date is a survey done for the Bingham Purchase of 1795 and surveyed in 1798 by Isaac Coolidge. The land was part of two large tracts totaling 2 million acres purchased by William Bingham, a wealthy Philadelphia banker. After the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts sold off large tracts of unsettled land in Maine by lottery. Bingham drew several townships and purchased others including 1 million acres from General Henry Knox whose duties as Secretary of War prevented him from developing the lands.

Surveyor: Coolidge, Isaac

Date/Date Range Produced: 1798

Language: English

Region Depicted: Gouldsboro, Maine

Map Type: GeographicalLand use maps

Dimensions: 48 x 51 cm

Printing Technique: Manuscript

LC Call Number: G3734.G63 C6 1798

OCLC: 1405922132

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