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1943 Map of Brewster

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Brewster
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

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The Great Swamp and the undulating hills of the New York-Connecticut border define this mid-century landscape. The area is dominated by the sprawling engineering of the Croton Watershed, featuring the massive Bog Brook Reservoir and East Branch Reservoir, which fundamentally reshaped the local topography to serve the needs of a growing metropolis. The New York Central railroad cuts through the western corridor, connecting rural outposts like Towners and Dykemans to the larger regional network.

Rural life is marked by numerous family-named crossroads such as Steinbeck Cors and Barnum Cors, while the presence of the YMCA Camp near Putnam Lake indicates the area's role as a recreational retreat. Educational and religious cornerstones, including Big Elm Sch and Beaver Bog Ch, provide critical anchor points for genealogists tracing ancestral settlements in Putnam and Fairfield counties before late-century suburbanization transformed these quiet ridge-and-valley communities.