Online Historical Maps for Charlton, MA
Make your research easier by searching for historical maps that will show the existence of your house through the years. In some cases you’ll see the homeowners names and in others you’ll see sketches of the outline of the house.

Here are some historical maps for Charlton, Massachusetts that are freely available online.
Historical Charlton Maps
1795
1795 Plan of Charlton available through the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. This map shows the boundary of Charlton in 1795, two meeting houses, the Dresser house and some roadways.
1831
1831 Plan of Charlton by Barlow Freeman available through the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. This map shows the boundaries of Charlton, topographic features and what appears to be roadways.
1857
1857 Map of Worcester County, Massachusetts by Henry Francis Walling available through the Library of Congress website. The map is in color and is very high resolution so you can zoom in to see the details for Charlton. The map provides topographic features, dots for houses and homeowner as well as public and commercial buildings such as churches and saw mills.
1857 Map of Worcester County, Massachusetts by Henry Francis Walling available through the Digital Collections at the Yale University Library. It is the same map as above but it is monochrome (in beige) and does not have the heavy town boundary lines
1870
1870 Map of Charlton from the Atlas of Worcester County, Massachusetts by F.W. Beers & Co. New York. It is available the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. he map provides topographic features, dots for houses and homeowner as well as public and commercial buildings such as churches and saw mills. There are detail maps for Charlton Depot, Charlton, and Charlton City.
1898
1898 Atlas of Worcester County by L.J. Richards & Co. available through the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. This is a map book of Worcester County with plates for the individual towns. Charlton appears on plates 19 and 21 (this corresponds to image 46 and 48 in the navigation). Plate 19 is the whole town of Charlton and plate 21 provides detail maps of Charlton Depot and Charlton. Houses, homeowners, and public buildings are available on the map.
1910 & 1922
1910 and 1922 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Charlton. Available through the Library of Congress website. These maps were created to assess the risk of fire but today they act as great historical documents providing details about the houses and other buildings in town.
