As you search for your past online, be sure to explore the beautiful antique maps that are now available. More and more maps are being scanned each day, optimized and delivered with easy to use interactive controls for your browsing pleasure. Since you may want to explore these archives for yourself, we have included links to the homepage of each collection.

Here's a sampling of city plans. Click the date to open the map. Click the credit link to visit the archive.

CITY PLANS

1641 F. R. Honey, New Haven in 1641. From A. P. Stokes, Historical Prints of New Haven, Connecticut, 1910.
Yale University Yale University Map Collection.

1796 Seth Pease, A Plan of the City of Cleaveland. Western Reserve Historical Society Library.
CSU Cleveland State University, Cleveland Cartography.

1800 A Map of Boston and its Environs Circa 1800. Published by P. Phillips, Bridge Street, Black Friars, London.
Maps of Early America Explore the amazing world of early America, Map section.

1804 Map of the Village of New Amsterdam (Buffalo). Holland Land Company.
HLC The Holland Land Company Resource Page.

1814 Alfred Kelley, Map of the village of Cleveland. Kelley's 1814 of Spafford's 1801 Map and first published by Whittlesey.
CSU Cleveland State University, Cleveland Cartography.

1830 D.W. Buckingham, Map of the City of New Haven, from actual survey. Connecticut.
Yale University Yale University Map Collection.

1920 Youngstown, Ohio 1920. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collectio.
UT Austin University of Texas at Austin, Library Online.

MAPS

1630 Hessel Gerritsz and Joannes De Leaf, Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm, Et Virginia. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
USM University of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library.

1688 Fr. Vincenzo Coronelli, Partie Occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France. American Geographical Society Map Collection.
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec National Library of Québec

1755 Cadwallader Colden, A Map of the Country of the Five Nations. Grenville Kane Collection.
Princeton University Princeton University Library.

1760 Ottens, Carte de la Nouvelle France. London, 1760.
Yale University Yale University Map Collection.

1775 John Montresor, A Map of the Province of New York. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
SUNY State University of New York at Stony Brook University Libraries, The Map Collection.

1775 John Mitchell, The Irony of Empire: John Mitchell's Map. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education.
USM University of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library.

1780 Bernard Romans, Connecticut and Parts Adjacent. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
SUNY State University of New York at Stony Brook University Libraries, The Map Collection.

1799 J. Low, A New Map of Connecticut from the Best Authorities. New York.
Yale University Yale University Map Collection.

1825 Anonymous, Map of the Western Part of the State of New York Including the Holland Purchase Exhibiting its Divisions into Counties and Towns. Courtesy of the State University of New York College at Fredonia, Holland Land Company Project.
SUNY State University of New York at Stony Brook University Libraries, The Map Collection.

1826 William Sumner, Map of the Western Reserve including the Fire Lands in Ohio. Engraved by William Savory of Pittsburgh.
CSU Cleveland State University, Cleveland Cartography.