Map
- Object Name:
- Map
- Object ID:
- 2026.013
- Creator:
- Ockington, Benjamin Brooks (1831-1909) -- Cartographer
- Place of Origin:
- Stratford, NH
- Date:
- circa 1875
- Description:
- Map. Hinged wooden map of Stratford, NH drawn on two pieces of Eastern White pine, c. 1875. The map is titled "Stratford / N.H. / A / COPY OF / C.D. Johnson's / PLAN / By / B. Brooks Ockington".
- Material:
- White Pine
- Dimensions:
- H-23 W-22.625 D-0.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Benjamin Brooks Ockington (1831-1909) was born in Randolph, N.H., before his father Benjamin Bird Ockington (1804-1875) moved the family to Stratford in 1832. There Benjamin Bird built a sawmill and a gristmill in Stratford Hollow, which, according to the town history, "for nearly fifty years furnished the principal industry in the lower part of town" (p. 428). His son rebuilt the mills in 1859 and continued to operate them with his brother Andrew. Benjamin Brooks Ockington married Rhoda Ann Wright (1842-1893) of Stoddard in 1862 and the couple had four children over the next twelve years: Gertrude Foster (b. 1863), Ellsworth Wright (b. 1865), Josephine Louise (b. 1870), and Charles Whitney (b. 1875). Benjamin Brooks was also postmaster in Stratford Hollow from 1861 to 1874.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of a Maryland Conservator
- Subjects:
- Surveying, Surveying equipment, Surveyors, Map making
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