1893 Map of Greenwood Lake

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.