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Boston Street, Canton — the surveyed record
Heavy waterfront industry: canneries, copper works, oil and coal handling. Everything below is a pointer to a public-domain document, with the exact edition and sheet count, so you can read the original rather than a summary of it.
Boston Street
Canton, Baltimore, Maryland
· locator 39.279, -76.576
The marker locates the street for orientation. It is not a parcel boundary and not a survey position.
Which Sanborn editions cover this street
Baltimore atlases digitised in this release: 1890, 1901. Open the index sheet of an edition, find the sheet number for this block, then step to it in the sheet browser.
- 1890 — Vol. 1, 86 sheets. index sheet · catalogue record
- 1890 — Vol. 2, 90 sheets. index sheet · catalogue record
- 1901 — Vol. 1, 109 sheets. index sheet · catalogue record
Topographic maps covering this area
- 1894 — Baltimore, MD, 1:62,500. source record
- 1908 — Patapsco, MD, 1:125,000. source record
- 1953 — Baltimore East, MD, 1:24,000. source record
- 1984 — Baltimore, MD, 1:100,000. source record
What to look for on the sheet
Sanborn surveyors lettered the use of a building onto the building. On a street like this the lettering to read carefully is anything to do with fuel, solvents, metal or wood processing — not because it says anything about the ground, but because those are the uses an environmental professional will ask about.
Open the former-use decoder Glossary of map terms Every digitised sheet Make a share card
Do you know something about Boston Street, Canton, Baltimore?
Old photographs, what your family remembers being on the corner, a shop that is not on any map we have. Contributions are read by a person before anything is published, and we never publish the names of living people.
Talking to an environmental professional
If the historical record shows a use you want explained, the next step is a conversation with an environmental consultant licensed in your state. A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is the standard product; typical quotes fall between $2,200 and $4,000.