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Bowdoinham, Maine Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Bowdoinham, Maine from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Bowdoinham building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Bowdoinham, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Bowdoinham artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Bowdoinham. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Bowdoinham brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Bowdoinham, Maine and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Bowdoinham map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks1
- Harwards
Streets and roads64
- Bay Road
- Back Hill Road
- River Road
- Main Street
- Post Road
- Pond Road
- Route 138
- Augusta Road
- Center Street
- Fisher Road
- Abbagadasett Road
- Pork Point Road
- Ridge Road
- White Road
- Carding Machine Road
- Browns Point Road
- Millay Road
- Pratt Road
- Center Point Road
- Dingley Road
- Wildes Road
- Wallentine Road
- Preble Road
- Eagle Wing Lane
- Birchwood Lane
- Hatha Way
- Lucas Lane
- Bay View Lane
- Cote Lane
- Spear Drive
Show all 64 streets
- Brook Lane
- Middlesex Road
- Muddy River Lane
- Blanchard Road
- South Pleasant Street
- Dunn Farm Lane
- Hemlock Hill Lane
- Beechnut Ridge Lane
- Cemetery Road
- Dinsmore Cross Road
- Carlson Cross Road
- Grave Cross Road
- Tegans Way
- Cairn Hill Road
- Jacks Way
- Heritage Lane
- Teal Lane
- Curtis Farm Road
- Cedar Lane
- Stevens Road
- Elliot Lane
- Abbagadassett Road
- Fiddlehead Lane
- Denham Lane
- Island View Lane
- Little Egypt Lane
- Windy Hollow
- Hatch Point Lane
- Jades Way
- Merrymeeting Way
- Small Way
- Mallard Lane
- Wallace Way
- Hunter Lane
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Bowdoinham, Maine
Bowdoinham is a town of 3,047 people in Sagadahoc County, on the west side of Merrymeeting Bay. Captain Gyles Watkins settled at the mouth of the Cathance River around 1720, but in the summer of 1723, during Dummer's War, the Norridgewocks and their allies from New France burned every building in the region and killed the cattle. Settlers abandoned the Kennebec country until the treaty of 1725 brought peace, and Abraham and Jonas Preble of York came back to resettle it about 1730.
Two rival claims then slowed the town down. Sir Ferdinando Gorges had granted the land in 1637 to Sir Richard Edgcumbe of Cornwall, while the Kennebec Company sold it in 1752 to William Bowdoin of Boston. The court sided with Bowdoin because the older grant was obsolete and vague, and on September 18, 1762, Massachusetts incorporated the town in his name. Its western plantation left in 1788 to become Bowdoin, and Richmond split off in 1823.
- Ships from 1768 to 1912Bowdoinham's builders sent their first vessel down the ways in 1768 and their last large one in 1912. Thomas Harward, a native of the town, built his first ship on Swan Island about 1790 and put up the family house on Pork Point Road about 1795. His son John ran the Harward yard at its busiest in the 1850s, and it shut down in 1869.
- Ice, mills and cheeseRobert Potter Carr kept his father's country store, served for years in the legislature and is thought to be among the first in town to harvest ice for sale. His Italianate house at 35 Main Street dates from about 1870.
- A mail-order front porchThe Butterfield-Sampson House at 18 River Road began as a Federal house around the 1810s. About 1890 its owners added a Stick style front that closely follows a design printed in Palliser's Model Homes of 1878, which makes it a rare mail-order house for Maine. It is listed on the National Register.
- Colby College's namesakeGardner Colby was born in Bowdoinham in 1810 and made his fortune in textiles and railroads. In 1865 he gave $50,000 to the college in Waterville, and it has carried his name ever since.
- The march king of MaineRobert Browne Hall, born here in 1858, played the cornet and wrote marches for wind bands. British brass bands still play his Tenth Regiment March as "Death or Glory," and the trio of his New Colonial March became the fight song of Stanford University. Maine honors him each year on Robert Browne Hall Day, the last Saturday in June.
Keep exploring Maine
Bowdoinham is one of 536 Maine towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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Near Bowdoinham
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
Shipping & Delivery
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