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1944 Map of East Middlebury

Name: 1944 Topographic Map of East Middlebury
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

The village of East Middlebury and the eastern reaches of Salisbury are captured in this 1944 survey, centered on the dramatic meeting of the valley floor and the rising slopes of the Green Mountain National Forest. The landscape is dominated by Lake Dunmore, with its eastern shore tightly bordered by steep ridges like Chandler Ridge and Rattlesnake Point. To the south, the curiously named Satans Kingdom sits near the outlet of the lake, while higher elevations to the east harbor smaller water bodies such as Silver Lake and Sugar Lake.

Local history is preserved through the location of the Plain School and the Lake Dunmore School, alongside several family and community burial grounds including Prospect Cem and Cooks Cem. The drainage patterns of the Middlebury River and Sucker Brook illustrate the hydraulic character of the region before modern development altered the rural Vermont interior. This map provides a clear record of the intersection between timbered forest land and the established agricultural settlements of Addison County.