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1943 Map of Fitchville

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Fitchville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Fitchville and Bozrah Street anchor this wartime survey of the rural Connecticut interior during the early 1940s. The landscape is defined by the winding Yantic River and a dense network of brooks like Pease Brook and Susquetonscut Brook that carved the hilly terrain of Bozrah and Franklin. The Central Vermont Railroad cuts through the northeast, passing Franklin Sta, while the Norwich Colchester Turnpike provides a primary automotive artery through Gilman.

Social and recreational hubs are prominent, from family-named cemeteries like Scott Hill Cem and Bardner Cem to a cluster of summer camps surrounding Gardner Lake, including Camp Winnapaw and Camp Wetonaw. The presence of several small schools, such as the Lebanon Rd Sch and Leffingwell Sch, alongside the Goshen Ch, illustrates the distributed nature of local community life before the era of major school consolidation.