1893 Map of Fitchburg

About this map

The industrial and transit hubs of North-Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire are captured here as they stood in the late nineteenth century. A complex rail network, including the Fitchburg Railroad and the Cheshire Railroad, converges at critical junctions like Ashburnham Junction, reflecting the region's importance as a nineteenth-century manufacturing corridor. The city of Fitchburg dominates the Nashua River valley, surrounded by smaller industrial and residential satellites such as South Fitchburg and West Fitchburg.