City/Town

Pittsfield (1889)

Map Title

Pittsfield, Maine, Looking Northwest.

Artist

George E. Norris

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Publication Date

1889

County

Somerset

Artist

George E. Norris

Lithographer

Burleigh Litho.

Publisher

George E. Norris

Dimensions

32 x 53 cm

Owner

Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

Additional Institutional Copies

Library of Congress

Population of City/Town at Time of Publication

1,909

Description of City/Town

The Maine Central Railroad passes through the south-eastern part, having a station at East Pittsfield….The streams are small except the Sebasticook, on which at East Pittsfield are the principal manufactories. There are here a saw-mill...a woolen-mill, a grain-mill, etc. The Maine Central Institute, near this village, has an elegant building, with suitable appointments, and is an excellent and flourishing school. It fits many students for Bates and other colleges.

A Gazetteer of the State of Maine, George J. Varney, 1881, 1886

Historic Newspaper References

Pittsfield Advertiser, January 19, 1888

“Mr. Geo. E. Norris, of Brockton, Mass., is in town for the purpose of making a perspective drawing of this village, and if he receives sufficient encouragement, such a drawing will be published in lithograph form.”

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