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Peterborough, New Hampshire 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 Peterborough, New Hampshire from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Peterborough 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 Peterborough, 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 Peterborough 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 Peterborough. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Peterborough brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Peterborough, New Hampshire and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Peterborough 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 landmarks14
- Downtown
- Drury
- Noone
- West Peterborough
- Happy Valley
- MacDowell Colony
- Oak Hill
- Pack Monadnock Mountain
- Casalis State Forest
- Miller State Park
- Kane Lots
- Adams Park
Show all 14 places
- Edward MacDowell Lake
- North Village
Streets and roads97
- Jaffrey Road
- Peterborough Bypass
- Grove Street
- Wilton Road
- Greenfield Road
- Hancock Road
- Elm Hill Road
- Concord Street
- Pine Street
- Powers Bridges Road
- Elm Street
- Windy Row
- Middle Hancock Road
- Farm Road
- Southfield Lane
- Hadley Road
- Sand Hill Road
- Old Street Road
- Old Sharon Road
- East Mountain Road
- Cornish Road
- Old Greenfield Road
- Union Street
- Dublin Road
- Old Dublin Road
- Carley Road
- Old Jaffrey Road
- Summer Street
- High Street
- Macdowell Road
Show all 97 streets
- Sharon Road
- Upland Farm Road
- Burke Road
- Spring Road
- Gulf Road
- Bogle Road
- Cunningham Pond Road
- Hunt Road
- 4 Winds Farm Road
- Scott Mitchell Road
- Monadnock Lane
- Murphy Road
- Wilder Street
- Old Mountain Road
- Currier Avenue
- Cheney Avenue
- Granite Street
- Condy Road
- Holt Road
- Westview Drive
- Contoocook Lane
- Lounsbury Lane
- Bass Road
- Ashlee Drive
- Taylor Road
- Gray Hill Road
- Noone Avenue
- Glen Drive
- Winter Street
- Slab Road
- Goyette Drive
- Nichols Road
- Scott Street
- Main Street
- Long Hill Road
- Old Town Farm Road
- Hunter Farm Road
- General Miller Road
- Rivermead Road
- Old Bennington Road
- Wilder Farm Road
- Miller Park Road
- Lookout Hill Road
- Vose Farm Road
- Reynolds Drive
- East Hill Road
- May Street
- Evans Road
- Garland Way
- Gulf Road Cutoff
- Briggs Road
- Birch Road
- Brian Road
- Hall Court
- Field Road
- Casalis Road
- Trinity Way
- Robbe Farm Road
- Longview Drive
- Richardson Road
- Blueberry Lane
- Arundel Road
- Kaufmann Drive
- Riverview
- Stone Ridge Drive
- Prospect Street
- Snow Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough is a town of 6,418 people in Hillsborough County, built along the Contoocook River in the Monadnock region. Massachusetts made the grant in 1737, and settlers came to stay in 1749. Raids during the French and Indian War struck the young settlement, yet fifty families were living here by 1759. On January 17, 1760, Governor Benning Wentworth incorporated the town and named it for Lieutenant Peter Prescott, a land speculator from Concord, Massachusetts.
Falling water on the Contoocook and Nubanusit Brook turned Peterborough into a mill town. Its first cotton factory started up in 1810. By 1859 the town had 2,222 people, four more cotton factories and a woolen mill, along with an iron foundry, two paper mills, a carriage factory, seven sawmills, three gristmills and a boot and shoe factory.
“Peterborough was clearly the per capita magazine production capital of the world.”
- A free library in 1833The Reverend Abiel Abbot came in 1827 to lead the Peterborough Unitarian Church, after Connecticut's religious leaders accused him of heresy. He founded the Monadnock Summer Lyceum and the town library, which in 1833 became the nation's first tax-funded free public library. The postmaster lent its books from the general store and post office. It worked so well that in 1849 the legislature let every town raise library money. The books moved to the town hall in 1873.
- MacDowell begins in 1896Marian MacDowell, a pianist, purchased Hillcrest Farm in 1896 so that she and her husband, the composer Edward MacDowell, would have a summer home. In 1907 she gave the farm to the Edward MacDowell Association to found an artists' colony.
- Grover's Corners and Grove StreetThornton Wilder stayed at the MacDowell Colony in June 1937, one of the places where he worked on Our Town. The play's Grover's Corners was modeled on Peterborough, and its name seems to come from the town's Grove Street. In Act Three the Stage Manager even says Peterborough's name aloud.
- Over 100 magazinesDuring the 1980s the publisher Wayne Green brought more than 100 magazines to Peterborough, most of them about computers and technology. Byte and MacComputing were among the titles produced in town.
- A granite church by CramRalph Adams Cram designed All Saints' Church on Concord Street in 1912, building it from granite quarried nearby in the style of an English country church. He drew partly on St. Mary the Virgin in Iffley, England, and Charles Connick made its stained glass. Its congregation held the first service on August 8, 1920.
Keep exploring New Hampshire
Peterborough is one of 277 New Hampshire towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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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.
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