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Canton, Massachusetts 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 Canton, Massachusetts from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Canton 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 Canton, 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 Canton 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 Canton. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Canton brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Canton, Massachusetts and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Canton 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 landmarks12
- Downtown
- Canton Junction
- Springdale
- Boyce Hill
- Breakneck Ledge
- Breeze Hill
- Buck Hill
- Bolivar Pond
- Duck Pond
- Blue Hills Reservation
- Summer Heights
- Ponkapoag
Streets and roads196
- Washington Street
- Turnpike Street
- High Street
- Cedar Street
- Pleasant Street
- Randolph Street
- York Street
- Green Lodge Street
- Dedham Street
- Neponset Street
- Elm Street
- Green Street
- Sherman Street
- University Road
- Chapman Street
- Indian Lane
- Pecunit Street
- Walpole Street
- Cedarcrest Road
- Bolivar Street
- Royall Street
- Algonquin Road
- Bailey Street
- Mechanic Street
- Kings Road
- Dan Road
- Pleasant Garden Road
- Spring Lane
- Revere Street
- Westchester Drive
Show all 196 streets
- Trayer Road
- Pleasant Circle
- Waterfall Drive
- Will Drive
- Shawmut Road
- Angela Street
- Pine Street
- Waterman Road
- Wayside Lane
- Oak Road
- Woodcliff Road
- Village Gate Road
- Norfolk Street
- Messinger Street
- Palmer Drive
- Highland Street
- Fairview Road
- Tracywood Road
- Thoreau Road
- Cherokee Road
- Raven Road
- Charles Drive
- Lawrence Street
- North Street
- Oxbow Road
- Wentworth Road
- Hudson Road
- Bay Drive
- Redman Road
- Sumner Street
- Farm Street
- Spruce Lane
- Longmeadow Drive
- Hemlock Drive
- Kensington Drive
- Prospect Street
- New Boston Drive
- Harrison Road
- Saddleback Lane
- Bayberry Road
- Pequit Street
- John Road
- Capper Drive
- Morton Street
- Cynthia Road
- Lake Road
- Sutcliffe Avenue
- Homans Lane
- Blackman Road
- Green Lane
- Casey Street
- Paul Street
- Eagle Drive
- Country Lane
- Island Street
- Seneca Road
- Royall Lane
- Fuller Street
- Saluti Lane
- Hoosic Drive
- Legion Street
- Albert Street
- Pond Street
- Larkin
- Standish Drive
- Mohawk Road
- Wildewood Drive
- Rockland Street
- Blue Hill River Road
- York Brook Road
- Carey Circle
- Ledgewood Drive
- Old Coach Road
- Curtis Road
- Robbin Road
- Del Pond Drive
- Balancing Rock Road
- Shaw Farm Road
- Tucker Road
- Flintlocke Lane
- Tolman Street
- Rebecca Road
- Ward Well Road
- First Parish Road
- Cedar Drive
- Walnut Knolls
- Sawyer Avenue
- Canton Point Road
- Windsor Woods Lane
- Hillcrest Road
- Colts Crossing
- Helen Drive
- Everett Street
- Estey Way
- Carver Circle
- Adrienne Drive
- Whitman Road
- Kelly Way
- June Terrace
- Dunbar Street
- The Mall
- Kirby Drive
- Andrea Drive
- Diana Drive
- Knob Hill Circle
- Chapel Street
- Fall Lane
- Cape Cod Lane
- Sandy Avenue
- Wall Street
- Elm Drive
- Cliff Road
- Oakdale Road
- Birchcroft Road
- Culloden Road
- Leonard Street
- Grand Street
- Century Drive
- Strawberry Lane
- Ridgehill Road
- Meadows Avenue
- Sunnybrook Lane
- Reynolds Street
- Glendale Way
- Roberts Road
- Quail Run
- Park Drive
- Russell Street
- Anthony Way
- Lehan Street
- Centre Street
- Chief Lane
- Drake Avenue
- Irving Street
- South Street
- Lamb Lane
- Arboretum Way
- Getchell Way
- Westdale Road
- Jackson Street
- Turtlebrook Road
- Autumn Circle
- Brooksweld Road
- Patriots Drive
- Pheasant Ridge Road
- Aldrich Road
- Downes Avenue
- Linden Glen
- Steeplechase Lane
- Old Meadow Lane
- Springdale Avenue
- Talbot Road
- Maple Street
- Pear Tree Drive
- Nancy Circle
- Sioux Drive
- Franklin Street
- Heather Lane
- Heritage Lane
- Kathryn Lane
- Lewis Street
- Energy Drive
- Burke Drive
- Forbes Road
- Ames Avenue
- Glen Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Canton, Massachusetts
Canton is a town of 24,370 people in Norfolk County, at the foot of Great Blue Hill, some 15 miles southwest of Boston. Before English farms spread here, most of this land was Ponkapoag, the colony's second Praying Town after Natick. In 1657 John Eliot asked Dorchester to set aside a plantation there, and the town voted up to 6,000 acres for the Native people living at Ponkapoag. During King Philip's War, in October 1675, the colony forced those who remained onto Deer Island. Around 1700 Ponkapoag families began leasing their land to settlers, and the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag still carries the name.
The settlers' village raised its meetinghouse at what is now Canton Corner in 1707, and Stoughton broke away from Dorchester in 1726 with this land inside it. On February 23, 1797, the north part of Stoughton became the town of Canton. Elijah Dunbar picked the name because he believed the Chinese city of Canton, now Guangzhou, lay directly opposite on the globe. It doesn't, since both cities lie well north of the Equator.
“Thou knowest, O God, that their room is better than their company.”
- Powder, then Paul Revere's copperThe colony's powder mill on the stream below Forge Pond, built in 1776, guarded day and night, supplied most of the provincial army's powder in the war's first three years, per the 1893 town history. It exploded on October 30, 1779, and Benjamin Pettingill later died of his burns. Paul Revere bought it in 1801 for the nation's first copper rolling mill, making bolts for Old Ironsides. In 1862 the Revere Copper Company cast 80 brass cannon for the government.
- A tavern meeting in 1774On August 16, 1774, delegates from across Suffolk County gathered at the tavern of Colonel Thomas Doty. Parson Samuel Dunbar of the Canton Corner church opened with a prayer for liberty so daring one listener called it the most extraordinary he'd ever heard. The meeting moved on to Dedham, then Milton, where the Suffolk Resolves passed, yet the 1893 town history calls the Doty gathering the province's first meeting against British tyranny. The tavern burned on December 19, 1888.
- World's longest railroad viaductWilliam Gibbs McNeill and George Washington Whistler designed the Canton Viaduct, finished in 1835 for the Boston and Providence Railroad. At 615 feet, it was the longest and tallest railroad viaduct anywhere when it opened. Tsar Nicholas I sent men to draw it, and two viaducts on Russia's Moscow to Saint Petersburg line copied its design. Its stone arches still carry Amtrak and MBTA trains high over the Canton River, and it joined the National Register in 1984.
- America's oldest choral societyElijah Dunbar led the Stoughton Musical Society as its first president, holding the post from 1786 to 1808. Around 1790 its singers are said to have beaten a chorus from Dorchester in what may have been America's first singing contest, performing the Hallelujah Chorus from memory. Now called the Old Stoughton Musical Society, it is counted as the oldest choral society in the country.
- Rising Sun Stove PolishIn 1864 Elijah Morse started making stove polish in a small upstairs room in Canton, and his Rising Sun Stove Polish Company made him a wealthy merchant. He gave the land for Memorial Hall, dedicated on October 30, 1879, and from 1889 to 1897 he sat in Congress.
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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
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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.
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