It could belong to anyone.
Generic decoration may match the furniture, but it gives nobody a reason to walk closer, point, and begin a story.
Connecticut hometown maps
First you find the road. Then you remember the house, the people, the turn you made without thinking, and the days that still feel close enough to touch.




The moment it becomes yours
A map becomes personal at the instant you recognize something: the route home, the water beyond the trees, the school down the road, or the center of town where everyone eventually crossed paths.
Why most hometown art falls short
The problem is not that your town lacks a story. Most wall art was designed to fill a room, not to hold the roads, houses, and names that made a life there.
Generic decoration may match the furniture, but it gives nobody a reason to walk closer, point, and begin a story.
Minimal street maps often strip away the houses, terrain, water, and landmarks that make one Connecticut town different from another.
An antique map can preserve history beautifully, but it cannot show the road, neighborhood, or home that shaped your own memories today.
If other hometown maps have felt strangely impersonal, it is not because the place means less than you remember. They were simply not made with enough local detail to awaken the memory.
The modern town portrait
KNOWOL combines the useful truth of a current map with the presence of an old New England atlas. The result is not merely a record of where things are. It is a portrait built for recognition.
Find the place
Search by name, then open the map and look for the road that brings everything else back.
The complete index
Browse all 169 towns and cities, plus Storrs as a village of Mansfield. Choose the place you live now, the place you grew up, or the place you never really left.




No town by that name. Try the first few letters, or clear the search to browse the index.
Someone finds a road. Someone else remembers a house. A neighbor points out the old route into town. The details turn a map into a reason for people to remember together.
From the KNOWOL workshop
The old-atlas feeling comes last. The place has to be right first.
We start with current public survey and elevation data for the town and its border, then draw the roads, the buildings, the water and the terrain at a scale where a single house is still visible.
Then the slow part. Someone reads the town's own record to decide what belongs on the map: the landmarks a resident would name, the historic districts, the founding year. A place is only lettered once we can source it.
The finished map is set in the style of a nineteenth century New England atlas, with the title panel, the lettering, and the muted inks of a plate that has been on a wall for a long time.
The print itself
A map worth looking at twice should be printed like one. Every order is made on heavyweight archival matte paper with fade resistant inks, then either rolled in a crush resistant tube or delivered framed and ready to hang.

Sizes and prices
The same price for every town, whether it is Hartford or Hartland.
| Size | Unframed | Black or white frame | Best in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12" x 18" | $39.99 | $89.99 | A hallway, an office, a gallery wall |
| 18" x 24" | $59.99 | $129.99 | A study, a den, above a consoleMost popular |
| 24" x 36" | $89.99 | $189.99 | The statement size, over a sofa or mantel |
Free U.S. shipping on every size
Questions
All 169 Connecticut towns and cities have their own map, plus Storrs, which is a village of Mansfield rather than a town of its own. Andover, Union, Scotland, Hartland and Voluntown are drawn with the same care as Hartford and New Haven.
Current. The streets and buildings are drawn from present day survey data, so what you see is the town as it stands now. What is historic is the style: the shading, the lettering and the engraved title panel follow the conventions of a nineteenth century New England atlas.
Town by town, by hand. The rule is what a resident would name if asked what is in their town. Nothing is lettered on the map unless it can be sourced.
The 12" x 18" suits a hallway, an office or a gallery wall. The 18" x 24" is the most popular and reads comfortably from a few feet away. The 24" x 36" is the statement size.
A slim Ayous wood frame in black or white, with lightweight shatterproof acrylic instead of glass. It arrives fully assembled with hanging hardware.
Most orders ship within 3 to 5 business days and arrive within 7 to 10 business days total, with free U.S. shipping. If you need it by a particular date, write to us first and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.
If a print arrives damaged or defective, email us and a replacement goes out. No fine print and no argument. KNOWOL has shipped more than 10,000 map orders and the delivery part is the part we have made easy.
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All 169 Connecticut towns and cities, drawn as they stand today and made to bring the memories back.
Find your townFrom $39.99 · Framed or unframed