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1893 Map of Harvey Lake

Name: 1893 Topographic Map of Harvey Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1924
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1924

About this map

Harvey Lake serves as the focal point of this late-19th-century landscape, surrounded by small villages like Laketon, Idetown, and Alderson. The terrain is dominated by the steep ridges of North Branch Mountain and Dutch Mountain, which hem in the narrow valleys. Industrial activity is evident along Bowman Creek, where the Lehigh Valley R.R. and its Bowman Creek Branch carved a path through the northern woods, connecting timber and tanning outposts such as Noxen and Stull.

South of the mountain barrier, the land levels into the farming and milling districts of Lehman and Jackson. Small crossroads like Cease Mills, Sweet Valley, and Loyalville show the distribution of rural life before modern road networks. Water features like Tamarack Swamp and Crane Swamp illustrate the undrained uplands that characterized the region during this era of early geological surveying by M.B. Lambert and H.M. Wilson.