1850 · (Wellesley)
by [Folded Map]
(Wellesley), 1850. Very Good. 82 x 59 cm. map printed on thin paper. Long tear along top of center vertical fold. Modest foxing. Map carelessly folded to size of 18 x 9 cm. "Bostonville: How a failed subdivision shaped Wellesley," published in the Wellesley Townsman on October 1, 2015, details the efforts of Daniel J. Ayer, a Canadian-born resident of Lowell, Mass. to develop a large block of land in what is now Wellesley, Massachusetts, an affluent suburb lying to the West of Boston and home to Wellesley Coillege. The sale of these small to modest-sized lots seems to have been successful but failed to produce more than a modest number of scattered homes. (truncated)