Martha's Vineyard Museum 59 School Street, Post Office Box 1310, Edgartown, MA 02539 Phone: 508.627.4441 Fax: 508.627.4436 www.mvmuseum.org Maps Collection Aquinnah / Gay Head Region Title Date Description Object ID Location Map of Gay Head that was developed by Joseph T. Pease, Richard L. Pease, and John H. Mullin to show the partition of the common lands. It shows numbered lots, major roads, a dividing line between beach land and up land, and a town boundary line between Gay Head and Chilmark. The last names of land owners shown on the map include Cuff, Peters, Cooper, Manning, Johnson, Rodman, Mingo, Tobey, Vanderhoop, Sanderhook, Map of Gay Head Showing the Genochio, Eagleston, Randolph, Attaquin, Madison, Belain, Smalley, Aquinnah / Gay Head 1870 1976.023 Rolled Maps Partition of the Common Lands Williams, Duff, Powell, James, Nevers, Devine, Cook, Jeffers, Weeks, Dodge, Richardson, Bound, Bassett, Allen, Haskins, Mayhew, Merrill, Norton, Spencer, Anthony, Foster, Williams, Cooper, Look, James, Laley, Hammond, Cromwell, Gersham, and Francis. It also identifies a lighthouse, church, grave yard, post office, school house, the Gay Head cliffs, Zachery's Cliffs, and the locations of ponds, a brook, and a stone wall. The map is a blueprint of a 1931 tracing of the original 1870 map. Map of Lobsterville Road in Aquinnah that gives the names and locations of property owners. The last names include Porter, Saunders, Merrill, Flat Files Cabinet 2 Aquinnah / Gay Head Lobsterville Road land divisions 1938 Manning, Draper, Jeffers, Mayhew, and Smalley. It also shows a proposed 2012.030.001 Drawer 3 road that branches off of Lobsterville Road near the Vineyard Sound. Tracing in pencil. Map of Gay Head that shows the lands of individual owners and the general fields or commons. It was made under the direction of Richard L. Flat Files Cabinet 2 Aquinnah / Gay Head Boundaries of Indian lands 1866 Pease, a commissioner appointed by Governor Bullock under Resolve 2012.030.002 Drawer 3 Chapter 67. The purpose of the map was to determine the boundary lines of the Indian lands in Gay Head. Map of the North Head area in Gay Head that was traced by Richard L. Flat Files Cabinet 2 Aquinnah / Gay Head Gay Head - North Head Place circa 1938 Pease to show land divisions. It shows numbered lots, but it does not give 2012.030.003 Drawer 3 the last names of property owners. Map of the South Head and North Head areas in Gay Head that was Gay Head - South Head Place and Flat Files Cabinet 2 Aquinnah / Gay Head 1938 traced by Richard L. Pease to show land divisions. It shows numbered 2012.030.004 North Head Place Drawer 3 lots, but it does not give the last names of property owners. 1 Map of Aquinnah / Gay Head from Donald Swift Real Estate that shows land divisions, including linear measurements for each lot. It also shows Flat Files Cabinet 2 Coochee Pond, Squibnocket Pond, Menemsha Pond, Menemsha Bight, Drawer 3 Aquinnah / Gay Head Aquinnah land divisions 1900s Cranberry Lands, West Spur, and the location of a gate. 1 copy also 2012.030.005 identifies the locations of a town hall, school, stone barn, potters wheel, Rolled Maps and property owned by Ginnochio, Devine, Manning, Attaquin, Cooper, and Belain. Map of Gay Head and No Mans Land that was copied from a United States Coast Survey map and given to Henry L. Whiting in 1853. It shows major Aquinnah / Gay Head Gay Head and No Mans Land 1852 roads and the outlines of ponds. The map does not have any text, but 2012.030.006 Rolled Maps there are annotations in red ink that give the locations of Gay Head Light, Gay Head Signal, and Molasha Hill. Tracing in ink. 2 Maps Collection Chilmark Region Title Date Description Object ID Location Map of Chilmark in the area between Vineyard Sound and South Road that is close to Tabor House Road and Roaring Brook. It was prepared by Richard L. Pease and John H. Mullin for Nathaniel Harris in order to show Map of Lands and Clay Privileges at Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark 1868 land ownership, boundaries, and clay privileges. The last names of land 2003.024 the Roaring Brook and Vicinity Drawer 3 owners shown on the map include Nickerson, Flanders, Norton, Mayhew, Look, Vincent, Pease, Tilton, Bassett, Hillman, Austin, and Hammett. Photocopy. See 2012.031.021 for a 1978 tracing of this map. Map of Chilmark that was based on a map by Joseph F. W. Des Barres Chilmark from Joseph F. W. Des Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark circa 1900 (see 2012.037.037). It shows house locations for 1781. There is no text on 2012.031.001 Barres map Drawer 1 the map other than a title. Tracing in pencil and ink by Charles Banks. Map of Chilmark that shows the names of people who owned 16 land Land owners near Tiasquam River in divisions near the New Mill River (Tiasquam River). The last names Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark circa 1900 2012.031.002 Chilmark include Merry, Look, Case, Cobb, and Tucker. Tracing in pencil and ink by Drawer 1 Charles Banks. Map of Florence B. Mayhew's land in Chilmark that shows two subdivisions. The land is along Squibnocket Road and it borders land owned by Ethel Blackwell Robinson, E. Elliot Mayhew, William S. Mayhew, Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Land subdivisions in Chilmark 1923 Gardner G. Hammond, and Alice Stone Blackwell. The survey for the map 2012.031.003 Drawer 1 was completed by C.B. Humphrey, a court-appointed engineer. Text on the map indicates that separate certificates of title may be issued for the two subdivisions. Map of Menemsha Creek and Menemsha Pond in Chilmark. Black-and- Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Menemsha Pond undated 2012.031.004 white photocopy with no labels other than "Menamsha Pond". Drawer 1 Map of Menemsha Pond and Menemsha Creek in Chilmark. The only Menemsha Pond and Menemsha Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark undated labels on the map are Menemsha Pond, Menemsha Creek, and "Flag" 2012.031.005 Creek Drawer 1 Hyd. Map of Menemsha Pond and Nashaquitsa Pond in Chilmark. It is a Menemsha Pond and Nashaquitsa Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark 1898 photocopy of the Chilmark area of a map from the United States Coast and 2012.031.006 Pond Drawer 1 Geodetic Survey (see 2012.036.062). Map of the north and south geological profiles for Chocker's Point in Geological profiles for Chocker's Chilmark. Each profile shows the types of geological layers that exist, such Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark undated 2012.031.007 Point in Chilmark as topsoil, ash, clams, fish, shells, scallops, and sand, as well as the depth Drawer 2 of each layer. Map of Florence B. Mayhew's land along Squibnocket Road in Chilmark. It shows 3 subdivisions for the land and the locations of hills, walls, and a Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Florence B. Mayhew land 1923 2012.031.008 gate. It also gives linear and angular measurements and the size in Drawer 2 acreage for each subdivision. Tracing in pencil. 3 Map of the Mills property near Tisbury Great Pond in Chilmark. It shows a proposed right-of-way, the location of a camp, Middle Coomes' Pond, and Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Sketch of Mills property 1940 Lower Coomes' Pond. It also gives linear measurements and sizes in 2012.031.009 Drawer 2 acreage. The names of land owners near the Mills property include Whiting, Mitchell, and Bigelow. Tracing in pencil. Map of Florence B. Mayhew's land in Chilmark. It shows 57 divisions for the land and it gives both linear and angular measurements. The map also Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Survey for Florence B. Mayhew 1921 identifies field stones near High Street and two posts and a wall on Lake 2012.031.010 Drawer 2 Road. The other roads shown on the map are Hillside Street, Crestview Avenue, and Red Valley Road. Map of Florence B. Mayhew's land in Chilmark. It shows 7 divisions for the Survey of Florence B. Mayhew's land and it gives both linear and angular measurements. The roads shown Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark 1929 2012.031.011 land are State Highway and Squibnocket Road. It also identifies 2 walls and a Drawer 2 post. Map of Chilmark that gives the names of land owners and the locations of their land. It also gives Indian place names and it identifies the sites for Indian lands, mills, meeting houses, an iron mine, a brick yard, a Property owners and landmarks in Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark 1858 cemetery, a school, clay pits, tan pits, Beetlebung Corner, Prospect Hill, 2012.031.012 Chilmark Drawer 3 and Peaked Hill. It is adapted from the Chilmark inset on The Map of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties, by Henry F. Walling in 1858. Tracing in pencil and ink by Charles Banks. Map of Chilmark that shows the results of land surveys by Richard L. Pease. It gives both linear and angular measurements for land bordering Menemsha Pond and Squibnocket Pond. The last names of land owners Flat Files Cabinet 2 Chilmark Plan of lands in Chilmark undated 2012.031.013 shown on the map are Mayhew, Smith, Allen, Dunham, and Greene. Drawer 3 Features identified on the map are walls, a spring, a meadow, a pasture, Herring Creek, and barns. Tracing in pencil. Map of Chilmark that shows the results of surveys of land near the Atlantic Ocean and Stonewall Pond.