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8053Appalchian Mountain Club: Map of the Country About Worcester. 1891.DetailsAppalachian Mountain Club1891
Scarce compiled map central Massachusetts
Appalachian Mountain Club
1891
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$1,100.00Appalachian-Mountain-ClubScarce-compiled-map-central-MassachusettsA scarce regional map of central Massachusetts titled <i>Map of the Country About Worcester</i>, published in 1891 by the Appalachian Mountain Club. The map is a sister publication to the Club’s <i>Map of the Country About Boston</i>, issued a year earlier in 1890, and extends AMC coverage westward from the Boston basin into the uplands and river valleys of interior Massachusetts.Only six institutional holdings are recorded in WorldCat, underscoring the map’s scarcity.<br><br> The maps were compiled from multiple U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle sheets and reduced to a uniform scale. Together, the two sheets extend the Appalachian Mountain Club’s regional mapping beyond the Boston basin into central Massachusetts. Their production reflects the Appalachian Mountain Club’s effort to adapt official government mapping into practical regional maps suitable for recreational, educational, and reference use.<br><br> The Worcester map appeared in 1891, the same year that <i>The Trustees of Public Reservations</i> was founded, marking a pivotal moment in Massachusetts conservation history. Both initiatives were closely associated with Charles Eliot, an early member of the Appalachian Mountain Club who became its Councilor of Topography in 1890 and was a leading advocate for systematic landscape preservation.<br><br> As stated in the imprint, the map was “Published by the Appalachian Mountain Club from the proofs of the State map with the permission of the director of the United States Geological Survey and the Commissioners of the Topographic Survey of Massachusetts.” The sheet was lithographed by George S. Harris and Sons, with sales agents W. B. Clarke and Company of Boston and Putnam and Davis, Booksellers, Worcester.