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1929 Map of Cohoes

Name: 1929 Topographic Map of Cohoes
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1932
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1932

About this map

The Saratoga Battlefield and the confluence of major New York waterways dominate this landscape at the end of the 1920s. The Hudson River serves as a central artery, flanked by the engineering of the Champlain Canal and the Barge Canal. Industrial and transit hubs like Mechanicville and Cohoes show dense settlement patterns shaped by the Boston and Maine RR and the Hudson Valley Electric RR.

Away from the river valleys, the terrain rises toward Mt Rafinesque and Beadles Mtn, where numerous numbered schools—such as School No 14 and School No 1—point to a distributed rural population. The expansive Tomhannock Reservoir in Pittstown stands as a significant hydrological feature, while smaller hamlets like Speigletown, Melrose, and Johnsonville maintain their local identities amidst a network of rails and river crossings.