1949 Map of Brisben

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The Chenango River valley serves as the primary corridor for settlement and infrastructure in this mid-century survey of New York. The landscape is defined by the sharp transition between the river bottomlands and high relief features like Harbor Hill and Watrous Hill. Evidence of nineteenth-century transportation remains visible in the form of an Abandoned Canal running parallel to the river, a relic of earlier commerce superseded by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Road.