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Austin Cary Collection of Washington County, Maine surveys and maps

• HF-ID: R1900-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Cary, Austin

• Associated Person:
  • Pope, W.F.

• Date: 1800s to early 1900s
• Location: Maine
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • 6 blueprints, 3 maps.

• Keywords: forest operations, soil, surveys
• Abstract:
  • Nine (9) maps in this collection:
  
  
  • 1. Plantation No. 14; scale 1inch = 1 mile; size 12 inches x 12 inches; Description of area; no date; done on blue print paper.
  
  
  • 2. Township No. 18; scale 1 inch = 1 mile; size 12 inches x 12 inches; Description of area; no date; done on blue print paper.
  
  
  • 3. Plan of South-West Corner of Whiting; no scale; size 9 3/4 inches x 10 inches; From office of W.F. Pope, East Machias, Maine; done of blue print paper.
  
  
  • 4. Plan of Town of Whiting; no scale; size 14 1/4 inches x 21 1/2 inches; by W.F. Pope, East Machias, Maine; Taken chiefly from J.F. Harris plan and survey and from B.R. Jones descriptive copy of the same; no date; on blue print paper.
  
  
  • 5. Land including Lots #1,2,6,7,8, and 16; boundaries: part of Little Machias Bay, part of Holmes Bay and Whiting Town Line; scale 80 rods = 1 inch; size 14 3/4 inches x 17 inches; from the office of W.F. Pope, East Machias, Maine; no date; on blue print paper.
  
  
  • 6. Plan of Rogue Bluff; no scale; size 11 3/4 inches x 12 inches; by W.F. Pope, East Machias, Maine; 1902; on blue print paper.
  
  
  • 7. Land by Mason's Bay with brief description of section of the land (soils, vegetation, trees, condition); no scale; size 14 3/4 inches x 20 inches; no date; on thick off white paper.
  
  
  • 8. Map showing Big Trunk Pond, Flanders Pond, Moraney Pond, ownership of some of the land; no scale; size 10 inches x 10 inches; no date; on thick off white paper.
  
  
  • 9. Land by South Bay, Sandy Point, Western Head, Eastern Head, Deer Island, Cape Wash, Cross Island, Great Pond, Chauncy Island, Hog Island, Sunken Lake, Josh Lake with brief description of the land (trees, condition of the land, soils, vegetation, acreage); scale 300 rods = 1 inch; size 15 1/4 inches x 17 1/2 inches; no date; done on thick off white paper.

• Related Items:
  • Austin Cary file

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 5, drawer 5
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Former title: Lot surveys and forest operations maps for Whiting/Machias/Mason's Bay, ME and vicinity