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1909 Map of Cooperstown

Name: 1909 Topographic Map of Cooperstown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1932
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1932

About this map

Otsego Lake anchors this early twentieth-century survey, its shores dotted with landmarks like Kingfisher Tower and the Lakewood Cemetery. The village of Cooperstown serves as a hub for both the Steamboat Route heading north and the Cooperstown and Susquehanna Valley RR tracking south along the Susquehanna River. This rail connection links a network of industrial and agricultural hamlets, including Phoenix Mills, Toddsville, and Clintonville.

Further east, the terrain is defined by the deep valleys of Cherry Valley Creek and Schenevus Creek, the latter carrying the Delaware and Hudson RR through Schenevus and Maryland. For genealogists, the map preserves the exact locations of civic and educational centers such as the Hartwick Seminary and the County House, alongside numerous family-named landmarks like Leatherstocking Falls and Hooker Hill.