Vermont & New Hampshire Map 1836 Regional Print - Montpelier, Concord, Burlington

David Hugh Burr published this map of Vermont and New Hampshire in New York in 1836, part of the same celebrated atlas whose wash-colored engraving style made Burr's work widely regarded as the most elegant American commercial atlas of its era. Burr had trained as a surveyor under Simeon DeWitt before issuing his own New York State atlas in 1829, the second state atlas published in the United States, and by the 1830s he was serving as topographer for the US Post Office, a post that gave him access to current survey data most competing publishers lacked. This sheet pairs the two northern New England states on a single plate, hand-colored by county, at a moment when both states' hill-country economies remained heavily tied to sheep farming and small-scale manufacturing along their river valleys.

Montpelier anchors Vermont as its capital, chosen in 1805 for its central location among the state's mountain towns, while Burlington governs the state's commercial life on Lake Champlain. Concord performs the same governmental role for New Hampshire, and Manchester is recorded amid the state's growing mill towns along the Merrimack River. The Green Mountains run the length of Vermont on the map's western half, and the White Mountains rise across New Hampshire's northern reaches, with the Connecticut River tracing the long natural boundary between the two states from source to south. County lines are drawn with the same careful wash coloring found throughout Burr's atlas.

This tandem map makes a fitting gift for a family with roots in either Vermont or New Hampshire's hill towns, or for a collector drawn to Burr's celebrated engraving style. It sits alongside the store's other Burr-published sheet, the 1836 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut map, giving a buyer the option of assembling all six New England states from the same atlas and the same year. It is offered unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact print for a study to a large-format piece for an office or hallway.