Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1857 (Raster Image)

This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage , public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and county boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages, and an inset geological map of county.

It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics. This map represents county boundaries as of 1857, thus a southeastern portion of the town of Petersham is not represented on this map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection.

These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, rail roads, roads, public works projects, etc.