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1953 Map of Colchester

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Colchester
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

The town of Colchester serves as the central hub of this mid-century New London County survey, showing a landscape defined by traditional New England crossroads and expanding infrastructure. The area is marked by numerous historic family and location-named junctions such as Cherry Corners, Milestone Corner, and Heilwield Corner, providing a glimpse into the localized geography of the era. To the north, Amston Lake and the village of Amston sit near the Tolland County line, while the southern reaches transition into the wooded basins around Lake Hayward and Pecks Meadow Pond in East Haddam.

Water resources and small-scale agriculture are prominent, with Jeremy Brook and Judd Brook carving through the terrain. The presence of St Johns Cem and the Exeter Ch in the northeast village of Exeter highlights the established community centers of the period. This edition, revised in the early 1950s and updated with 1980s data, documents the evolving road network including Lebanon Road and Rattlesnake Road as they connected these rural outposts to the town center.