Dunstable

Dunstable is a Massachusetts historical marker in Dunstable-Tyngsborough line, Middlesex County, dedicated 1930.

Route 113, Dunstable-Tyngsborough line · location approximate

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Settled before 1673, a town in 1680, divided by the New Hampshire-Massachusetts boundary, the northern part becoming Nashua, New Hampshire in 1741.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1777 · Carte des environs de Boston, capitale de la Nlle. Angleterre en Amerique (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1891 · Massachusetts. Atlas Plate No. 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1899 · Map of the electric railways of the state of Massachusetts (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

A map of New England, 1677, covering the location of Dunstable, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A map of New England, 1677, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Dunstable

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