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1935 Map of Brattleboro

Name: 1935 Topographic Map of Brattleboro
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1939
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1939

About this map

Brattleboro serves as the economic and transit anchor for this Windham County landscape, where the confluence of Whetstone Brook and the Connecticut River dictated early industrial and railroad development. Surveyed in part by G.E. Hyde and A.T. Fowler, the map illustrates a transition from the river-valley commerce of the Boston and Maine Railroad to the high-elevation farming and timber tracts of the Green Mountains.

Genealogists will find a detailed network of outlying settlements and hamlets including Guilford Center, Williamsville, and West Dummerston. The terrain is marked by distinctive local landmarks such as Childs Monument and the steep elevation of Black Mountain, which sits adjacent to a prominent Quarry. Further south, the map captures the rural school system of the era with locations like Monument Sch and The Plains Sch, alongside family-named summits like Ames Hill and Ginseng Hill.