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1909 Map of Fryeburg

Name: 1909 Topographic Map of Fryeburg
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

The Saco River and its intricate network of lakes and ponds define this region of western Maine near the New Hampshire border at the turn of the century. The village of Fryeburg serves as a hub, connected by the Central White Mountains Line railroad and marked by the Battle Monument and local Fairgrounds. The landscape is dotted with small hilltop schoolhouses such as Union Hill School, Seavey School, and Black Mountain School, indicating a distributed rural population tied to the land and the timber around Kezar Lake.

Tracing the waterways reveals numerous vanished or changed settlements like Lynchville and North Fryeburg, alongside family-named landmarks like Jockey Cap and Joe McKeen Hill. The surveyors from the Public Utilities Commission recorded a dense system of brooks and mountain ponds, from Bradley Pond to the winding Crooked River, providing a detailed look at the hydrology and early infrastructure of Oxford County before modern highway development.