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1901 Map of Cambridge

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Cambridge
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1945
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1945

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Batten Kill snakes through the heart of Washington County, anchoring a late 19th-century landscape of riverside mill towns and valley rail junctions. The survey captures the industrial and agricultural rhythm of the era, where the Greenwich and Johnsonville Ry. and the Delaware and Hudson R. R. connected settlements like Greenwich and Salem to wider regional markets. Small hamlets such as Battenville, Center Falls, and Shushan appear established along the water’s edge, utilizing the river's power long before modern industrial shifts.

Upland from the river valleys, the map details a terrain of named peaks and numerous water bodies, including Cossayuna Lake and the cluster of Hedges Lake, Schoolhouse Lake, and Lake Lauderdale. Local history is preserved in labels for rural stops like Easton Sta. and the vanished clusters of Pumpkin Hook and Ash Grove, offering a precise view of the county's settlement patterns prior to the expansion of 20th-century road networks.