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1944 Map of Cambridge

Name: 1944 Topographic Map of Cambridge
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

The Batten Kill river winds through Washington County, defining the early industrial and agricultural corridors of Greenwich and Battenville. In the mid-1940s, this landscape was characterized by a network of rural schools like Cary Sch and small riverside settlements such as Center Falls. The topography is marked by prominent elevations including Mt Colfax and Redstone Ridge, while the lowlands are punctuated by water bodies such as Hedges Lake and Lake Lauderdale.

Rail infrastructure played a vital role in local commerce, with the Greenwich and Johnsonville line following the river valley while the Delaware and Hudson corridor serves the village of Cambridge. In the southern portion of the quadrangle, the presence of the Mary McClellan Hospital and Woodland Cem near Coila provides specific points of interest for genealogists and local historians researching the mid-century development of these communities.