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Plan of Lakefield Park, Lynnfield Centre, Mass : Property of Frank J. D. Barnjum
Title
Plan of Lakefield Park, Lynnfield Centre, Mass : Property of Frank J. D. Barnjum / James A. Bancroft, surveyor.
Production
[Massachusetts] : [circa 1900]
Physical Description
1 map : printed reproduction ; 47 x 54 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale circa 1:960 (W 71°02ʹ16ʺ--W 71°01ʹ47ʺ/N 42°31ʹ56ʺ--N 42°31ʹ40ʺ).
Notes
Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.
Unit of measure, likely miles, not indicated in horizontal bar scale. Scale approximated from horizontal bar scale using miles as ground distance.
Numbered "658" in ink.
Place names in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc., on the Walter Jennings Memorial Fund, 2018.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
James A. Brancroft (1834-1923) was a surveyor based in Reading, Massachusetts.
Frank John Dixie Barnjum (1858-1933) was a Canadian lumber merchant and politician. Born in Montreal, Canada, Barnjum owned land in Canada and the United States, and resided in Boston and Lynnfield, Massachusetts and Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.
Summary
Undated printed copy on acetate of a cadastral map dated 1890 January 23 by James A. Bancroft. Map shows the 176 lots comprising the Lakefield Park residential development on land belonging to Frank J. D. Barnjum, in Lynnfield Centre, Essex County, Massachusetts, bordered by the mill pond Pillings Pond to the northeast and Summer Street to the south.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2019
References
James A. Bancroft, Plan of Lakefield Park, Lynnfield Centre, Mass. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
James A. Bancroft, Plan of Lakefield Park, Lynnfield Centre, Mass. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Cadastral maps.
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