{"product_id":"old-auto-trails-map-of-new-hampshire-1920-manchester-nashua-concord-salem-keene","title":"Old Auto Trails Map of New Hampshire, 1920: Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Salem, Keene","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Hampshire is the original title of this 1920 state map, issued within the George F. Cram Company’s ambitious Auto Trails and Commercial Survey of the United States. It is a brisk, data-rich portrait of a state on the cusp of modern mobility, marrying the precision of administrative geography with the practicalities of road travel and commerce. Electric lines stand out in confident red, highways and auto trails are carefully differentiated in red and blue, and county and town boundaries are set off in distinct tints for immediate comprehension. Population statistics punctuate key centers, tying the cartography to the realities of the 1920 census. Relief by hachures adds a tactile understanding of terrain, allowing readers to intuit how valleys, uplands, and passes shaped routes, markets, and regional connections across New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated by the Chicago-based George F. Cram Company—renowned for detailed commercial and educational cartography—this map reflects a publisher attuned to the needs of motorists, shippers, and teachers alike. Cram’s Auto Trails series distilled a fast-changing landscape into orderly symbology: color-coded roads, clearly bounded jurisdictions, and utility corridors that signaled both power and possibility. The firm’s editorial discipline is evident in the clean hierarchy of information, where administrative lines, transport arteries, and demographic notes each hold their own space without visual clutter. Conceived in the postwar burst of American roadbuilding, the composition anticipates the automotive age, recording paving status and route condition just as civic planners, touring clubs, and businesses coalesced around standardized, motor-friendly corridors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe political and civic skeleton of the state is presented with crisp authority. County lines and shadings frame a roster of principal cities and towns—Manchester and Nashua in Hillsborough County; the capital, Concord, anchoring Merrimack; Franklin nearby; Portsmouth and Salem punctuating Rockingham; Keene seated in Cheshire; Lebanon and scholarly Hanover in Grafton; and Conway opening into the upland east. Each place-name is both locator and demographic cue, the population annotations inviting comparisons among industrial hubs, river towns, and county seats. The delineation of administrative boundaries is not merely decorative: it clarifies the responsibilities and jurisdictions shaping taxation, road maintenance, and public works, while also guiding commercial routing decisions between local markets and statewide distribution points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the composition lies a sophisticated depiction of movement. Auto trails and highways, distinguished in red and blue, chart both primary corridors and secondary feeders, while notations on paving status speak to the practicalities of early motoring—where a journey would be smooth, where it might be slow, and how weather or grade could intervene. Electric lines, marked emphatically in red, trace the arteries of power and industry, linking mill towns, depots, and emerging suburbs into a modern grid of energy and enterprise. Read together, these layers reveal the interplay of technology and terrain, mapping the options available to travelers and traders in a pre-interstate, pre-numbered-road era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeography is rendered with an eye for cause and effect. Hachured relief tips the reader to passes, ridgelines, and river valleys that naturally shepherded roads and utilities, while county borders and city names encode the civic logic of the state. The northern boundary with Quebec and the southern line with Massachusetts frame New Hampshire within larger commercial circuits, emphasizing the state’s role as both corridor and destination in regional exchange. As a historical record of infrastructure and administration tied to the 1920 census, the map captures a pivotal moment—when electrification spread, auto travel accelerated, and public investment reorganized daily life. Its elegant, color-keyed vocabulary turns complexity into clarity, preserving a living blueprint of New Hampshire’s early twentieth-century transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCities and towns on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHillsborough County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManchester (modern day population: approx. 115,644)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNashua (modern day population: approx. 90,197)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMerrimack County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcord (modern day population: approx. 44,628)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranklin (modern day population: approx. 8,367)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRockingham County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortsmouth (modern day population: approx. 21,233)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalem (modern day population: approx. 30,040)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrafton County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLebanon (modern day population: approx. 13,699)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHanover (modern day population: approx. 8,572)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarroll County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConway (modern day population: approx. 10,212)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCheshire County:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeene (modern day population: approx. 23,785)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElectric lines depicted in red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdministrative boundaries illustrated in varying colors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuto trails indicated with different colors for clarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor roads and highways displayed in red and blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCounty lines and principal cities, capitals, and towns included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePopulation statistics annotated at various points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelief shown with hachures to convey terrain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYear of creation: 1920\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMapmaker\/publisher: George F. Cram Company (Chicago), known for detailed commercial and educational maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeries\/notes: Part of “Auto Trails and Commercial Survey of the United States”; includes navigation and commercial information; highlights electric lines and administrative boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes\/topics: Transportation networks (auto trails, highways, electric lines), population statistics, paving status of roads, and administrative boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign\/style: Electric lines in red; administrative boundaries in color; highways and roads in red and blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeographic scope: State of New Hampshire with county delineations; bordered by Quebec (north) and Massachusetts (south)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical significance: Records New Hampshire’s infrastructure and administrative divisions as of the 1920 census\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. 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