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Mapping Duxbury: Summer Exhibit 2005
The exhibit is being assembled by David Corey, a member of the historical society and map collector who has been conducting research on local maps for years. The exhibit will include not only fine specimens of local mapmaking, but also the fascinating history behind the maps as well. For instance, included in the exhibit will be a copy of 1775 map of Plymouth Bay by Charles Blaskowitz, one of the highly skilled cartographers employed by the Crown to chart the New England coast for military purposes. Led by Samuel Holland these mapmakers charted the coast in intricate detail, even noting farmhouses along the shore. Blaskowitz’s map of Plymouth Bay may have been “side work” conducted during this larger project. Other featured maps will be the 1833 Ford map of Duxbury and the 1857, 1879 and 1903 county maps which are so informative in their depiction of house locations and notations on property owners. Modern satellite photography, digital imaging, and geographic information systems maps of Duxbury round out the exhibit So, come to the King Caesar House this summer and see how your neighborhood has changed over 170 years!
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In the Potter Gallery this summer will be a new exhibit, "Mapping Duxbury,
1605-2005," which explores 400 years of maps and map-making technologies. It
begins with the first known map of Duxbury, made by the French explorer Samuel
de Champlain in July 1605, and progresses through early navigational charts and
later census maps.