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1893 Map of Greenwood Lake

Name: 1893 Topographic Map of Greenwood Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1893
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1893

About this map

Greenwood Lake bisects the border of New York and New Jersey, serving as the central axis for a region dominated by iron mining and heavy rail transport in the late nineteenth century. The rugged northeast-to-southwest ridges of Bearfort Mountain and Kanouse Mountain hem in a network of valleys where industry flourished. This 1893 edition shows the critical infrastructure of the era, from the Sterling Mountain Railroad serving the furnaces to the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in the northwest.

Industrial sites like Sterling Furnace and several named excavations, including Peters Mine, Green Mines, and Layton Mines, indicate the economic importance of the local geology. Small settlements such as Newfoundland, West Milford, and Midvale are documented alongside numerous smaller bodies of water like Wawayanda Lake and Macopin Lake, reflecting the complex topography of the Passaic and Orange county highlands before modern development altered these rural corridors.