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1948 Map of Essex Junction

Name: 1948 Topographic Map of Essex Junction
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Essex Junction serves as the industrial and transportation nexus of this 1948 survey, where the Central Vermont railroad follows the winding course of the Winooski River. This postwar landscape reveals a transition from traditional rural patterns to early suburban growth, centered around the Champlain Valley Exposition grounds. To the south, the village of Williston and smaller settlements like North Williston and Richmond are connected by a network of rural roads and early bypasses like Vermont 117.

Local history is preserved through the locations of several one-room schoolhouses, including Muddy Brook Sch and Oak Hill Sch, alongside landmarks such as a Brick Kiln and various quarries. From the heights of Saxon Hill to the shores of Lake Iroquois, the map documents a period when the timber of the Essex Junction Village Forest and the agricultural lands of the Vermont Research Forest Agriculture Experiment Station remained the dominant features of the Chittenden County terrain.