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1987 Map of Reading

Name: 1987 Topographic Map of Reading
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

The town of Reading and its surrounding Middlesex County suburbs are documented here during a period of significant late-twentieth-century residential and infrastructure growth. Central to the map is the large recreational expanse of Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, which serves as a landmark alongside the extensive Camp Curtis Guild National Guard Reservation. The landscape is a mix of dense suburban tracts and large institutional or preserved spaces, such as the State Hospital in Tewksbury and the southern reaches of the Harold Parker State Forest.

Transportation corridors dominate the map's layout, with numerous interchanges and the Boston and Maine railroad lines cutting through the terrain. For the local historian, the map preserves the locations of several ancient interments, including the Old Fuller Burying Ground and Old Burying Ground, alongside numerous 20th-century public institutions like the Berry Rehabilitation Center and Shawsheen Valley Vo-Tech High Sch.