Gill 1858 Map Project

 The 1858 map of Gill (MA)  is the oldest "complete" map of town. It shows every road and names every house and business.     

****The Project is to find out how many of the 1858 houses are still standing, and to create a database of all the old house sites.  ****
Many have burned or otherwise "vanished", but how many are still here?

As of this posting, we have the locations of 56 buildings from the 1858 map that are still in use.  Are there more?     (see "maplets" at the bottom here with houses we have "found"). There is also a list - see link  2 screens below)

To make the list we numbered every house site on the 1858 map.  Then we will write the 2024 house owner on a scan of this "worksheet". 
Becky Minor of Center Road is the author of this project.


Becky started by with the MACRIS online list of historic places in Gill (1979 Inventory funded by the Mass.) , and, with online tax maps from Mass GIS, made a list of places which existed in 1979.

click Here to see "houses in 2024"  as we have it now. (pic above) This is an online Airtable database.
 

To see more info on house #9, click on the 2 tiny diagonal lines on left side. The full record pops up. (Pic below)

We have "Bonneville" as the current owner.  The image at the bottom  (above) is a "maplet" section of the 1858 map showing where houses #1-16 are.  Below is the enlarged "maplet" with the current owner names and street numbers written in.

The remaining "maplets" with the current information as of March 20 are located below.  They have been chopped into smaller sections to make them easier to navigate.