Map of Caledonia County, VT 1858 · first comprehensive road map of the seventeen towns of...

Map of Caledonia County, VT 1858 �

Map of Caledonia County, VT 1858

Edition of December, 2005© Old Maps PO Box 54 West Chesterfield, NH 03466

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A complete copy of the 1858 county map by H.F. Walling showing the names and locations of 1000s of houses, businesses, churches and schools as they were a century and a half ago. The 1858 map was the first comprehensive road map of the seventeen towns of Caledonia County.

To find your town, click on the name in the list below

BARNET BURKE DANVILLE GOSHEN GORE GROTON HARDWICK KIRBY LYNDON NEWARK

PEACHAM RYEGATE SHEFFIELD ST JOHNSBURY SUTTON WALDEN WATERFORD WHEELOCK

Modern Town Outline Map

The original map is a large wall map measuring about 5’x 5’. The old wall map has been “taken apart” for this edition by scanning into separate images. This image is of an original at the Library of Congress.

Map of Caledonia County 1858

An Historical Sketch of The Map

The Map of Caledonia County, Vermont 1858 is an important historical document. It was the result of the most comprehensive survey made to that date of the 17 towns in Caledonia County. The map pinpoints the names and locations of every residence, workplace, church and school.

This map is one of several Vermont county maps created in the 1850s- a period of extraordinary map-making in America. The author of this map, Henry F. Walling, was one of the leaders of the county map-making business. Walling, whose home base was New York City, produced several other Vermont county wall maps, as well as a number in neighboring states.

Few details of this map’s origins are known, but we do know the general methods used for these projects. Publication was announced in local newspapers, and local offices were set up where advance orders for the new map could be taken. A typical mid-1850s price was five dollars per copy. Prominent citizens allowed their names to be used in the map’s advertisements, testifying to the merits of the map, and no doubt assuring it of financial success. Some paid extra for the honor of having their homes and businesses featured in engravings in the margins of the map. The map was printed on four separate sheets (probably on large stone printing plates) and assembled and glued together onto a cloth backing. Each copy

was then hand-colored in several different hues, var-nished, and mounted on wooden rollers.

The large size -- about 5’ x 5’ -- has often proved an impediment to display. Copies have commonly been placed in storage, usually in attics, where they have suffered from the effects of heat and leaky roofs. Originals in good condition today are rare items.

Roads were measured with a wheel odometer, simi-lar to the wheelbarrow-like device pictured here, or one drawn by horse and buggy. The surveyor would ask the names of farmstead owners as he passed by, and would surely add a brief sales pitch for the new map... after all, the map would carry the name of the resident, engraved upon it. The original road surveys for this privately-produced map were the most com-prehensive yet made. This map served as the basis for later mapping for decades afterwards.

List of Vermont County Maps County(s) Year Surveyor PublisherRutland 1854 Chace, J., Jr. Chace & ScottWindsor 1855/6 Doton, Hosea n.aBennington 1856 Rice, E. & Harwood, C.E. Peckham, C.B.Windham 1856 Chace, J., Jr. McClellan, C., & Co.Addison 1857 Walling, H.F. Baker, Wm. & Co.Franklin & Grand Isle 1857 Walling, H.F. Baker, Tilden & Chittenden 1857 Walling, H.F. Baker, Tilden & Orange 1858 Walling, H.F. Baker & TildenWashington 1858 Walling, H.F. Baker & TildenCaledonia 1858 Walling, H.F. Baker & Tilden Orleans, Lamoille & Essex1859 Walling, H.F. Loomis & May

Table of Contents Map of Caledonia County, Vermont, 1858 by H..F. Walling CD-ROM Reproduction by Old Maps, West Chesterfield, NH 03466 Title Page Modern Town Outline Map 1858 Map of Caledonia County Historical Sketch of the Map Table of Contents (this page)

6 BARNET Barnet Mc. Indoes Falls Passumpsic Village10 BURKE Burke Hollow East Burke West Burke12 DANVILLE Danville Green Greenbank Hollow Harvey’s Hollow North Danville15 GOSHEN GORE16 GROTONGROTON Groton18 HARDWICK East Hardwick Hardwick Street South Hardwick21 KIRBY22 LYNDONLYNDON Lyndon Centre Lyndon Corner24 NEWARK25 PEACHAM Peacham Corner

Peacham Hollow28 RYEGATE Ryegate South Ryegate30 SHEFFIELD Sheffield32 ST JOHNSBURY East St Johnsbury St. Johnsbury St. Johnsbury Center 38 SUTTON Sutton Corner 40 WALDEN41 WATERFORD Lower Waterford Waterford West Waterford44 WHEELOCK Wheelock

Table of Distances Statistics Vermont Capital Montpelier Court House St. Johnsbury

BARNET

Barnet

Mc.Indoes Falls

Passumpsic Village

Map of Caledonia County, VT 1858 ��

West Burke

East Burke

Burke Hollow

DANVILLE

Danville Green

North Danville

Greenbank Hollow

Harvey’s Hollow

GOSHEN GORE

GROTON

Groton

HARDWICK

East Hardwick

Hardwick Street

South Hardwick

LYNDON

Lyndon Centre

Lyndon Corner

NEWARK

PEACHAM

Peacham Corner

Peacham Hollow

RYEGATE

Ryegate

SHEFFIELD

Sheffield

ST JOHNSBURY

St Johnsbury Center

St Johnsbury

East St Johnsbury

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SUTTON

Sutton Corner

WALDEN

WATERFORD

Waterford

LowerWaterford

West Waterford

WHEELOCK

Wheelock

Data and PicturesIn addition to the many detailed village maps, the margins of the 1858 map also contain some historical data and two pictures.

Table of Distances

Statistics

Vermont Capital Montpelier

Court HouseSt Johnsbury

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