1948 Map of Freeland

About this map

Freeland sits at the heart of this post-war landscape, where the concentrated street grid of the borough contrasts sharply with the intensive extractive industry surrounding it. The map documents a transition in coal country, showing extensive strip mine operations and mine dumps encroaching upon older settlements like Upper Lehigh and Drifton. To the north, the terrain rises into the ridge of Nescopeck Mountain, cut by the Nescopeck Pass and various utility corridors like the pipeline that traverses the high ground.