New Hampshire and Vermont in 1883 - Concord, Montpelier, Manchester

This New Hampshire & Vermont map comes from Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, copyrighted 1883 by George Franklin Cram and published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey and Co. It's part of the first edition of Cram's first "mass production" world atlas, sixty-five maps produced to bring detailed state geography within reach of ordinary American households.

Printed in full or outline color at a scale of about 1:1,025,000, with relief shown through hachures and each state bordered in red and its counties outlined in yellow, the sheet names Concord and Montpelier among its towns and traces the Connecticut River as it forms much of the boundary between the two states. Railroads are shown threading through both states with fine crisscrossing lines, and Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city, anchored the Amoskeag Mills, by 1883 among the largest textile manufacturing complexes in the world, while Vermont's economy across the river stayed closer to dairy farming and granite quarrying. The map is bordered by a decorative pattern typical of the period.

This print suits anyone with New Hampshire or Vermont roots, a family with ties to Concord, Montpelier, or the towns along the Connecticut River, a transplant who left New England, or a collector building a run of Cram's 1883 atlas maps. It also makes a fitting housewarming, birthday, or anniversary gift. Every print ships unframed and is available in multiple sizes.