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Historical Maps & Mapping Resources
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is home to the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center which houses a unique collections of maps including; American Revolutionary War area maps, European Age of Discoveries maps, Colonial New England and Colonial Boston maps, Nautical charts from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, maps and atlases from the 16th to 18th century, 19th century county and town land ownership maps, various editions of some of the earliest printed maps, and MORE!
Atlascope Boston
Fire insurance and real estate atlases offer one of the most incredible tools for researching urban form in the period roughly 1860–1940. However, these physical atlases can be cumbersome to use and difficult to compare across multiple volumes. Our Atlascope initiative has geotransformed 101 atlas layers of Boston and its inner suburbs and made them discoverable as never before on a custom new web interface, suitable for browsing on a computer or mobile device.
Mapjunction.com
Historic map overlay program that includes multiple map types and aerial images.
MACRIS Maps
Online GIS map of documented historic buildings/landscapes/parks/cemeteries, etc. with links to their official state historic forms
