Antique Maps of The United States New Hampshire Training Courseware

Antique Maps of The United States - New Hampshire CD
	The earliest maps of the "Mother of Rivers". Presented here is an extremely rare collection of 68 antique maps from New Hampshire's formative years in the 18th century. The impact of these maps is further enhanced by cutting-edge MrSID viewing technology which allows you to zoom in and out on any of the portrayed maps after clicking on their thumbnails.

New Hampshire was originally a British colony, and its history is a complex one that involves all sorts of cultural and sociological undercurrents. Contemporary New Hampshire, in general terms, is about politics and real estate, investments and law. It has its fair historical share of racial exploitation and injustice - it also has an equal share of pivotal personalities and triumph over adversity. The early political, as opposed to the natural climate, was far from ideal.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies.

--John Lynch

The state started out as a plantation haven. In the 1600s, it had few natural resources other than fish, salt and timber to bank on and the economy rested squarely on timber mills and fishermen families. At approximately that point in time it did not have a formal government and had to accept Massachusetts' rule for 40 years. The Civil War took a generous toll on New Hampshire and it was its Native American population that saw it through some of its leanest periods. The Abenaki and Pennacook were adept at agriculture and natural resource harvesting. However, the peaceable American Indian tribes soon fell prey to the rapacity of the early settlers, and by the middle of the 1700s, the American Indian in New Hampshire was all but extinct.

1760 saw the presence of 61 New Hampshire towns in place of the original four plantations, and most of their names reflected its British ancestry. To the present day, New Hampshire strongly projects its colonial past, and a number of ancient maps now exist to document its fascinating development.

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The Antique Maps of the US - New Hampshire CD is an innovative collection of 68 antique topographic maps that chart 18th century New Hampshire like never before. The impact is further enhanced by cutting-edge MrSID viewing technology. These vintage maps represent the state's most vibrant evolutionary era. Amongst them:

Railroad map of New Hampshire accompanying a report of the railroad commissioners, 1894. Created and published in Boston, 1894 - a township and county map showing relief by hachures, cities and towns, and the railroad network distinguished by color and name.
A topographical map of the Province of New Hampshire, surveyed agreeably to the orders and instructions of the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; unto Samuel Holland, Esq., His Majesty's Surveyor General of Lands for the Northern District of North America; by the following gentlemen his deputies: Thomas Wright [and others]. Created and published London, printed for William Faden in 1784. Shows township and patent boundaries with accompanying comments - ‘The respective parts of this plan were survey'd by the several gentlemen concerned with all possible accuracy, and afterwards rectified by Samuel Holland.
Plan du port de Portsmouth levé à vue. Created and published ca.1782. Relief shown by hachures, showing fortifications and premier anchorage areas for ships and indexed for points of interest.
Bird's eye view of the village of Farmington, Stafford County, New Hampshire in 1877. Created and published in 1877. A perspective map not drawn to scale, including an index to points of interest.
An accurate map of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New England and all the adjacent country northward to the River St. Lawrence and eastward to Penobscot Bay, containing the principal places which relate to the war on the continent of North America, by Samuel Langdon (1723-1797). Created and published in 1756-‘57. Relief shown pictorially. Shows ‘Fort William Henry taken and demolished by the French A: D: 1757.' Includes inscription to ‘His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq., His Majesty's Governor,' and numerous historical and descriptive notes, with an inset stating ‘A general map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal, to Lake Ontario and the country westward from Lake Champlain to the late English fort at Oswege.
An accurate map of the State and Province of New Hampshire in New England, taken from actual surveys of all the inhabited part, and from the best information of what is uninhabited, together with the adjacent countries, which exhibits the theatre of this war in that part of the world, by Col. Blanchard and the Rev. Mr. Langdon. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys. With many additions by Abel Sawyer. Created and published in Boston, 1784. Relief shown pictorially. Shows area from the Hudson River-Lake Champlain to Penobscot Bay. Inset - ‘A general map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario, with the adjacent country on the west from Albany and Lake Champlain.'

These and every other historic map featured on this fascinating CD can be viewed with the innovative MrSID (Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database) software (to download this software, please click on the supplied link). MrSID technology allows you to zoom in and out on any of the portrayed maps after clicking on their thumbnails. This facilitates the viewing of each part in complete detail.

EDITORIAL REVIEW:

Possibly, it is only American states that have such a fascinating gauntlet of individual histories. This country is so vast that practically all of them had to be discovered singly. My family resides in New Hampshire and we are constantly enthralled by the richness of its past. In fact, I have a quote by Captain John Smith of England who has surveyed New Hampshire sometime around 1624 - "Here should be no landlords to rack us with high rents, or extorted fines to consume us. Here every man may be a master of his own labor and land in a short time. The sea there is the strangest pond I ever saw. What sport doth yield a more pleasant content and less hurt or charge than angling with a hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle over the silent streams of a calm sea?" Well, New Hampshire may or may not have lived up to the good captain's high expectations, but it has certainly seen its portion of stormy weather.

I wish more would share my ongoing interest in the history of New Hampshire. Have you ever wondered where its towns get their quaint names from? Towns were occasionally named after prominent citizens, many of who bore the historic names of English royalty, while others were named after Dutch settlers who came from places like New York and settled in New Hampshire. This and other interesting trivia comes to mind as I browse through the fascinating Antique Maps of the US - New Hampshire CD from A2ZCDS. I earnestly hope that others will find it as engrossing as I do.

CUSTOMER'S REVIEWS:

"Totally engrossing and remarkably clear and well detailed, these maps of New Hampshire fill in a lot of blanks. If you know even a little of this state's background (so easily obtained on the Internet these days) each one of them tells a separate story. What fascinated me the most were the strong English colonial undertones in the superscriptions. It drives the fact of our British heritage home like nothing else could."

Customer's Name: Edwina Cartwright (Concord, New Hampshire)

"If I consider what we do in topography with computers these days, these maps are of course quite primitive and certainly outdated. But I must also consider the fact that New Hampshire was always important enough to attract Imperial cartographic attention to such an extent. These maps are certainly of immense historic value. I understand A2ZCDS is releasing a whole series of these CDs now."

Customer's Name: Nahum B. Hewitt (Brockton, Massachusetts)

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