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1940 Map of Bridgeport

Name: 1940 Topographic Map of Bridgeport
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1940
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1940

About this map

Industrial activity along the Delaware River defines this 1940 survey of the borderlands between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Pennsylvania shore is heavily developed, anchored by the massive Locomotive Works near Eddystone and the Hog Island Shipyard (Abandoned) downstream. This heavy manufacturing hub contrasts sharply with the tidal marshes and agricultural landscape of Gloucester County, New Jersey. In the township of Greenwich and Logan, life is organized around small settlements like Bridgeport and Gibbstown, where the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads intersect the truck farms of the interior.

The map reveals a landscape managed by water, showing Flood Gates protecting the lowlands and several mill ponds, including Hendrickson Mill Pond and Warrington Mill Pond, along the tributaries of Raccoon Creek. Genealogists will find many family-named roads and landmarks, from Tomlin Station Road to Oaklawn Cem, which served the rural communities of Center Square and Asbury before mid-century suburbanization.