Vermont & New Hampshire Map 1882 Township Print - Montpelier, Burlington, Concord

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this Vermont and New Hampshire sheet in 1882, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886, a later 19th-century production built around county and township detail. This printing is hand-colored with relief shown through hachures, pairing the two states on a single sheet the way earlier atlases in this collection also did, though built here around decades more settlement and rail development than those earlier editions could show. The sheet maps Vermont and New Hampshire jointly, tracking both states' county and township divisions across a mountainous New England interior that had, by the 1880s, been substantially built out with rail lines connecting its towns.

Both states' counties and townships are laid out in distinct colors, a granular administrative view that reflects decades of settlement filling in the mountainous terrain the two states share. Railroads thread through both states on this sheet, a network largely absent from the region's earlier maps and a sign of how thoroughly rail had reshaped travel across northern New England by 1882. Rivers and lakes, including Lake Champlain along Vermont's western edge, are worked into the base map beneath the administrative detail. Together the counties, the railroads, and the waterways sketch two states whose mid-century agricultural character had, by the 1880s, been layered over with a mature rail network.

For a Vermont or New Hampshire family with late-19th-century roots, or a collector building out the region's maps across the decades, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Vermont and New Hampshire combined in Cram's 1893 edition, separately in Bradford's 1838 atlas, and combined again in Tanner's earlier 1840 sheet; this 1882 Mitchell sheet is the only one of the group to show the region's fully developed rail network layered over its township-level detail. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.