A recent phone call from the Shrewsbury Historical Society brought a happy surprise. They had a gift for us: a copy of a map of Shrewsbury, hand-drawn in January 1849—mostly likely created to outline the boundaries of the new municipality, the Township of Ocean, scheduled to split from Shrewsbury a month later.
They have given us both a digital and a full-size paper copy of the original, now framed and unveiled to the public at a wine and cheese open house
