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1898 Map of High Bridge

Name: 1898 Topographic Map of High Bridge
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1898
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1898

About this map

The ridge-and-valley topography of western New Jersey is dominated here by the distinctive horse-shoe curve of Cushetunk Mountain, encircling a broad valley floor. This 1898 edition reflects a landscape shaped by early industrial transportation, where the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad converged to serve iron-rich settlements and mills. The eponymous High Bridge stands at a critical junction, while the South Branch of Raritan River and Musconetcong River define the natural drainage patterns that guided the placement of villages like Readingsburg and Glen Gardner.

Smaller hamlets such as New Germantown and Pottersville are mapped before the twentieth-century expansion of modern roadways, showing the dense network of lanes that once linked rural post offices and farms. Notable landmarks like Packers Island and the elevation at Silver Hill provide specific points of interest for local history researchers tracing nineteenth-century land use and family holdings across the Hunterdon County countryside.