New Hampshire Map 1829 State Print - Concord, Portsmouth, Manchester

Anthony Finley published this map of New Hampshire in Philadelphia in 1829, part of the run of state maps he issued to accompany his bestselling A New General Atlas, first released in 1824 and reissued annually through the mid-1830s. Finley had established himself as one of the first generation of American publishers producing genuinely high-quality, precise maps on domestic soil, competing directly with fellow Philadelphian Henry S. Tanner, and his state maps were prized for combining clear engraving with careful, regularly updated county detail rather than recycled decades-old geography. This New Hampshire sheet is hand-colored by county and records towns, rivers, lakes, islands, bays and the state's still-developing network of early roads, capturing the state a full generation before its railroads would reshape its economy.

Concord anchors the map as state capital along the Merrimack River, while Portsmouth governs New Hampshire's small but historic Atlantic coastline, the state's only saltwater port. Manchester appears still in its early stages, not yet the major mill town the Amoskeag textile works would soon make it. Lake Winnipesaukee dominates the state's central lake district, its many islands carefully rendered, and the White Mountains rise across the northern third of the sheet, an area still sparsely settled and only lightly explored by the surveyors whose work Finley's plate compiled. Early roads link the southern towns along the Merrimack Valley, while the north remains threaded by little more than rough trails.

This early state map makes a meaningful gift for a New Hampshire family with roots in the Merrimack Valley or Lakes Region, or for a collector building a run of Finley's state atlas maps from the 1820s. The store's later Colton edition of New Hampshire, issued three decades after this one, shows the same state transformed by railroads and mill towns, making a useful before-and-after pairing for anyone tracking the state's nineteenth-century development. It is available unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact print for a study to a large-format piece for an office or hallway.