Reading
Reading is a Massachusetts historical marker in Reading, Middlesex County, dedicated 1930.
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Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1794 · Massachusetts. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Massachusetts. Atlas Plate No. 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · Atlas of Middlesex County (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
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