1977 Map of Hudson

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The Hudson town center and the winding Assabet River anchor this 1977 orthophotograph, which captures a period of significant suburban expansion and land-use shifts in Middlesex County. The high-contrast aerial imagery reveals the dense residential clusters of Hudson and Stow as they existed before the tech-corridor boom fully reshaped the region. North of the river, the landscape transitions into the more dispersed wooded and agricultural patterns of Boxboro, Harvard, and Bolton. Significant for its visual evidence of late-1970s development, the map shows the footprint of older industrial sites along the river alongside newer residential subdivisions and the cleared paths of major transportation routes. Smaller locales like East Bolton and East Berlin appear as distinct pockets within the larger rural-suburban matrix of the day.