Item number: MAS1771
Antique Uncolored Map
1925
Maker: Morse & Chase
Rare antique uncolored plan of part of Harwich Port, MA, showing roads and building lots, by Morse & Chase Engineers, 1925. Includes handwritten notes in pen, presumably the names of purchasers over their land plots. Inset map shows the location of this community in relation to all of Harwich.
The area is named for the Saquatucket, one of the local Native American groups (part of the Wampanoag Tribe), and what is not Saquatucket Harbor was once a stream called Andrews Creek or River, for local farmer Andrew Clarke, who used salt hay from the marsh to feed his sheep. A watermill was built on one of its feeder brooks, Carding Machine Brook, in 1820. In the early twentieth century a small bridge was constructed over the creek “not more than 500 feet distant from the point where the said creek flows into Vineyard Sound.” It wasn't until the 1960s that a major project aided by the state of Massachusetts and the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the river and created the busy harbor we now know.
Good to very good antique condition with a center fold with minor seam separations that have been repaired with what appears to be archival tape. Some light foxing. Approx. 10 x 10 inches to the neat line.
Antique Uncolored Map from 1925
Item Number: MAS1771