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1964 Map of Belchertown

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Belchertown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

The town of Belchertown and its surrounding Hampshire County hills are captured here in the mid-1960s, a landscape defined by significant public and institutional landholdings. Extensive tracts of the Cadwell Memorial Forest, State Reservation, and the western edge of the Quabbin Reservation dominate the northern and eastern sections. Notable institutional landmarks of the era include the large complex of the Belchertown State School and St Hyacinths Seminary and College situated near Forge Pond.

Transportation patterns reflect the intersection of two major rail lines: the Boston and Maine and the Central Vermont, which skirt the edges of Lawrence Swamp and pass through the settlement of Dwight. Local history is preserved in numerous family-named landmarks like Cooks Corner and Meads Corner, along with several burial grounds including Munsel Cem and Rural Cem. The terrain transitions from the elevations of Mt Lincoln and the Holyoke Range down to the basins of Metacomet Lake and Arcadia Lake.