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1957 Map of Adelphia

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Adelphia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

The borough of Freehold serves as a prominent anchor for this central New Jersey landscape during the late 1950s. The region is defined by a distinct transition from the concentrated residential streets and the Pennsylvania railroad line in the north to an extensive agricultural and wetland network in the south. Dozens of Cranberry Bogs are scattered throughout the wooded lowlands, particularly along the North Branch Metedeconk River and South Branch Metedeconk River.

Historically significant milling sites appear at several river crossings, including Oakland Mills, Wyckoff Mills, Bennetts Mills, and Jacksons Mills, the latter of which features the expanded Jacksons Mills Lake. Small rural communities such as Adelphia, Siloam, and Harmony are connected by a web of named local roads like Pennsylvania Rd and Three Brooks Road, illustrating a period of local development before the onset of massive suburban expansion.