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1947 Map of Adelphia

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Adelphia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Cranberry bogs dominate the low-lying terrain of central New Jersey in this late 1940s landscape, illustrating a specialized agricultural economy concentrated between the Manasquan River and the headwaters of the North Branch Metedeconk River. The boundary between Monmouth County and Ocean County cuts across the southern half of the sheet, where small settlements like Harmony and Jacksons Mills are connected by a network of unimproved roads and light-duty routes.

Industry and transport are woven into the rural fabric, evidenced by the Pennsylvania Railroad corridor in the north and various mill sites including Wyckoff Mills, Oakland Mills, and a lumber mill near Smithburg. In addition to these milling centers, the map documents numerous small crossroads communities such as Georgia, Fort Plains, and Bennetts Mills before the era of significant suburban expansion, preserving the location of family-named landmarks and local quarries.