Rare Old Map of Concord, Massachusetts by USGS, 1918: Framingham, Walden Pond & Sudbury River
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Published in 1918 by the United States Geological Survey, “Framingham” presents a finely observed topographical portrait of eastern Massachusetts at a moment...
Continue readingPublished in 1918 by the United States Geological Survey, “Framingham” presents a finely observed topographical portrait of eastern Massachusetts at a moment when old rural patterns and modern infrastructure overlapped. Although named for Framingham, the sheet embraces a broader historic landscape, including Concord and its surrounding towns, where waterways, roads, railroads, ponds, and village centers are rendered with the disciplined clarity characteristic of USGS mapping. At a scale of 1:62,500, it offers both regional breadth and practical detail, translating the rolling Middlesex County terrain into contour lines set at 20-foot intervals. The result is a map that is not merely navigational, but interpretive: a measured record of elevation, settlement, transport, and water in the early twentieth-century Boston hinterland.
The US Geological Survey had, by 1918, become the authoritative cartographic institution for documenting the physical form of the United States. Its topographic sheets were created for practical use—engineering, planning, resource management, military preparedness, and scientific study—but they now possess an understated aesthetic elegance. On this map, the USGS’s color-coded visual language distinguishes water, relief, roads, railways, and inhabited places with efficient precision. Contours sweep across the page in rhythmic patterns, revealing ridges, hollows, and drainage basins that ordinary road maps would ignore. The Framingham sheet demonstrates the Survey’s great achievement: making complex terrain legible without sacrificing geographic richness, and presenting the landscape as a coherent system of movement, settlement, and natural form.
Concord gives the map a particular historical resonance. Long associated with the opening conflict of the American Revolution and with the literary world of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Alcott, Concord appears here not as an isolated shrine, but as part of an interconnected working landscape. The Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers define the area’s hydrology, joining and winding through lowlands that shaped agriculture, roads, and settlement patterns. Nearby Walden Pond, one of the most culturally charged bodies of water in America, is placed within its physical setting rather than treated as myth alone. The map quietly restores context to famous places, showing how history, literature, ecology, and daily movement all emerged from the same terrain.
The surrounding towns—Framingham, Lincoln, Weston, Sudbury, Wayland, Bedford, Cochituate, and Waban—appear amid a web of roads and railroads that speaks to the changing character of the region. In 1918, this was an area increasingly tied to metropolitan Boston, yet still marked by open land, ponds, river corridors, and village centers. Lake Cochituate, Hart Pond, Wellens Pond, Nutting Lake, and numerous smaller waters punctuate the sheet, while local features such as Nine Acre Corner and Ravens Hill add a layer of intimate place-name history. The area around the present-day Brandeis University site is captured before that institution existed, offering a glimpse of the older landscape beneath later suburban and educational development.
What makes this map especially compelling is its record of transformation in progress. The contours reveal a gently varied New England topography of valleys, ridges, river flats, and wooded uplands, while the roads and rail lines anticipate the suburban expansion that would dramatically reshape the region over the following century. Many fields, routes, wetlands, and settlement edges shown here have since been altered by highways, housing, campuses, conservation areas, and changing land use. Yet the enduring structure of the landscape remains visible: rivers still gather in the lowlands, ponds still anchor communities, and town centers still follow patterns established long before 1918. As a historical document, “Framingham” captures Massachusetts at the threshold between rural memory and modern growth.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Concord
- Framingham
- Lincoln
- Weston
- Sudbury
- Wayland
- Bedford
- Cochituate
- Brandeis University
- Walden Pond
- Sudbury River
- Assabet River
- Concord River
- Lake Cochituate
- Hart Pond
- Nine Acre Corner
- Ravens Hill
- Wellens Pond
- Waban
- Nutting Lake
- State Forest
- Various railroads and roads traversing the area
- Smaller bodies of water, residential areas, and marked roads
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:62,500 topographical map showing Concord, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas.
- Created in 1918 by the US Geological Survey.
- Published by the US Geological Survey, known for comprehensive mapping of the United States and detailed topographical data.
- Features contour lines indicating elevation, with a contour interval of 20 feet.
- Uses color coding to distinguish different terrains and water bodies.
- Depicts elevations and depressions, including valleys and ridges.
- Shows physical features and infrastructure that may have changed over the past century due to urban development, environmental change, and land use transformation.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Published in 1918 by the United States Geological Survey, “Framingham” presents a finely observed topographical portrait of eastern Massachusetts at a moment when old rural patterns and modern infrastructure overlapped. Although named for Framingham, the sheet embraces a broader historic landscape, including Concord and its surrounding towns, where waterways, roads, railroads, ponds, and village centers are rendered with the disciplined clarity characteristic of USGS mapping. At a scale of 1:62,500, it offers both regional breadth and practical detail, translating the rolling Middlesex County terrain into contour lines set at 20-foot intervals. The result is a map that is not merely navigational, but interpretive: a measured record of elevation, settlement, transport, and water in the early twentieth-century Boston hinterland.
The US Geological Survey had, by 1918, become the authoritative cartographic institution for documenting the physical form of the United States. Its topographic sheets were created for practical use—engineering, planning, resource management, military preparedness, and scientific study—but they now possess an understated aesthetic elegance. On this map, the USGS’s color-coded visual language distinguishes water, relief, roads, railways, and inhabited places with efficient precision. Contours sweep across the page in rhythmic patterns, revealing ridges, hollows, and drainage basins that ordinary road maps would ignore. The Framingham sheet demonstrates the Survey’s great achievement: making complex terrain legible without sacrificing geographic richness, and presenting the landscape as a coherent system of movement, settlement, and natural form.
Concord gives the map a particular historical resonance. Long associated with the opening conflict of the American Revolution and with the literary world of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Alcott, Concord appears here not as an isolated shrine, but as part of an interconnected working landscape. The Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers define the area’s hydrology, joining and winding through lowlands that shaped agriculture, roads, and settlement patterns. Nearby Walden Pond, one of the most culturally charged bodies of water in America, is placed within its physical setting rather than treated as myth alone. The map quietly restores context to famous places, showing how history, literature, ecology, and daily movement all emerged from the same terrain.
The surrounding towns—Framingham, Lincoln, Weston, Sudbury, Wayland, Bedford, Cochituate, and Waban—appear amid a web of roads and railroads that speaks to the changing character of the region. In 1918, this was an area increasingly tied to metropolitan Boston, yet still marked by open land, ponds, river corridors, and village centers. Lake Cochituate, Hart Pond, Wellens Pond, Nutting Lake, and numerous smaller waters punctuate the sheet, while local features such as Nine Acre Corner and Ravens Hill add a layer of intimate place-name history. The area around the present-day Brandeis University site is captured before that institution existed, offering a glimpse of the older landscape beneath later suburban and educational development.
What makes this map especially compelling is its record of transformation in progress. The contours reveal a gently varied New England topography of valleys, ridges, river flats, and wooded uplands, while the roads and rail lines anticipate the suburban expansion that would dramatically reshape the region over the following century. Many fields, routes, wetlands, and settlement edges shown here have since been altered by highways, housing, campuses, conservation areas, and changing land use. Yet the enduring structure of the landscape remains visible: rivers still gather in the lowlands, ponds still anchor communities, and town centers still follow patterns established long before 1918. As a historical document, “Framingham” captures Massachusetts at the threshold between rural memory and modern growth.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Concord
- Framingham
- Lincoln
- Weston
- Sudbury
- Wayland
- Bedford
- Cochituate
- Brandeis University
- Walden Pond
- Sudbury River
- Assabet River
- Concord River
- Lake Cochituate
- Hart Pond
- Nine Acre Corner
- Ravens Hill
- Wellens Pond
- Waban
- Nutting Lake
- State Forest
- Various railroads and roads traversing the area
- Smaller bodies of water, residential areas, and marked roads
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:62,500 topographical map showing Concord, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas.
- Created in 1918 by the US Geological Survey.
- Published by the US Geological Survey, known for comprehensive mapping of the United States and detailed topographical data.
- Features contour lines indicating elevation, with a contour interval of 20 feet.
- Uses color coding to distinguish different terrains and water bodies.
- Depicts elevations and depressions, including valleys and ridges.
- Shows physical features and infrastructure that may have changed over the past century due to urban development, environmental change, and land use transformation.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Many of our maps and art prints are chosen as thoughtful gifts for homes, offices, studies and meaningful places.
Choose a framed option for the easiest ready-to-hang gift, or choose an unframed print if the recipient may prefer to select their own frame.
We make orders locally in 23 countries around the world, so gifts can often be produced close to the recipient. This helps them arrive faster, travel more safely, and avoid customs or import duty surprises.
- We can deliver directly to the recipient
- Framed pieces arrive ready to hang
- Unframed prints are carefully packed in a strong protective tube
- Almost every order is made locally, for faster, safer gifting
- 90-day returns give the recipient time to decide
If you are not sure what to choose, please contact us. We can help you pick the right map, size, finish or delivery option.
Most orders are made locally and delivered in around 2–3 working days, depending on the product, size and destination.
We print and frame maps and artwork in 23 countries around the world, so your order is usually made close to you or your recipient. That means faster delivery, less time in transit, and no customs or import duty surprises.
Personalised and customised pieces usually take an extra 1–2 working days, because we prepare your design and send it to you for approval before printing.
Very large framed orders can take a little longer, as they need extra care in production and delivery.
Every order is carefully packaged: unframed prints are sent in a strong protective tube, while framed pieces are securely packed with protective materials around the frame.
If you need your order by a particular date, please contact us before ordering. We’ll check the best production route and delivery option for your location.
Express delivery is available at checkout for most countries. Next-day delivery is available in the UK, US, Singapore and the UAE.
Your order is covered by our 90-day returns policy and 10-year guarantee.
Our standard frame is a gallery-style black ash hardwood frame, with a simple, modern look. It is approximately 20mm (0.8in) wide. You can also view some lovely customer photos of framed maps and art.
We use super-clear acrylic glazing, also known as Perspex or Acrylite, instead of traditional glass. It is lighter, safer, and has lower reflectivity, giving the artwork a clearer, cleaner appearance.
Six standard frame colours are available at no extra cost: black, dark brown, dark grey, oak, white, and antique gold. Custom framing and mounting/matting is also available for customers looking for something more specific.
Most maps, art prints, and illustrations are also available as a framed canvas. We use matte cotton canvas, stretch it over a sustainably sourced wooden box frame, and then float the piece within a wooden outer frame. The finished result is beautifully presented, with no glazing between you and the artwork.
All frames are supplied ready to hang, with either string or brackets fitted to the back. Very large frames will include heavy-duty hanging plates and/or a mounting baton. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
We can also supply old maps and artwork on canvas, foam board, cotton rag, and other materials.
If you would prefer to frame your map or artwork yourself, please read our size guide before ordering.
Every Unique Maps piece begins with an authentic cartographic source or an original design from our London studio.
For our historic maps, we source rare originals from libraries, archives, auction houses and private collections around the world. We carefully restore each map for print—repairing age-related damage, balancing colour and improving clarity while preserving its original detail, texture and character.
Once restored, the map is prepared for your chosen size and finish. Your piece is then printed and, where selected, framed close to its delivery destination.
Our map prints use acid-free 200gsm archival matte paper and fade-resistant pigment inks, creating a rich, non-glossy finish designed to last. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
Canvas, cotton-rag and other specialist presentations are also available. Learn more about our materials and finishes.
Personalising your map
You can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. For personalised designs, we send a proof before printing and you can request changes before approval.
For more complex bespoke commissions, contact our design team.
Original or Aged
Choose Original for true-to-source colour, or Aged for a warmer, richer antique character created with our specialist ageing process. See examples of our Aged maps.
We’ve been restoring and producing maps and art prints since 1984, and we stand behind every piece.
Every order is covered by our 10-year guarantee and damage-free delivery guarantee. If your piece arrives damaged, we’ll replace or remake it free of charge. If anything else isn’t right, contact our workshop team and we’ll put it right promptly.
See our returns and refund policy for full details.
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