1873 Atlas of Long Island, New York is a color facsimile reproduction of one of the rarer atlases produced by F.W. Beers, the prolific New York cartographic publisher whose county and regional atlases of the 1860s and 1870s. This 1873 volume features full color, hand-tinted maps that capture Long Island's towns, villages, property boundaries, and landowner names across Kings, Queens, and Suffolk counties at a fascinating moment of transition — just as the region was beginning its transformation from a largely rural, agricultural landscape into the suburban and resort communities it would become in the decades that followed.
The atlas includes detailed township maps for all twenty-one towns on Long Island, from the western Kings County towns of Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, and New Utrecht through the Queens County towns of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica, Newtown, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay, and east across Suffolk County's towns of Babylon, Brookhaven, East Hampton, Huntington, Islip, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Smithtown, Southampton, and Southold. In addition to the township maps, the volume contains dozens of individual city and village plans showing communities across all three counties in close detail, with property lines and landowner names throughout.
Supplementary material rounds out the atlas, including maps of New York City and Long Island, a map of the Long Island Rail Road and its stations, tables of distances for Kings, Queens, and Suffolk counties, and business notices for each county.
8.5" x 11". 172 pages. Color.
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