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1905 Map of High Bridge

Name: 1905 Topographic Map of High Bridge
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1910
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1910

About this map

Cushetunk Mountain and its distinctive Round Valley formation dominate the eastern landscape in this early twentieth-century survey of Hunterdon County. The geography is defined by a dense network of steam-era transportation, where the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad South Branch intersect near High Bridge. This industrial and agricultural hub connects smaller villages like Annandale and Glen Gardner to the broader regional economy.

Water power and natural corridors follow the Musconetcong River and the South Branch Raritan River, which carve through the ridges of Pohatcong Mtn. and past Packers Island. Notable for genealogists are the numerous rural post offices and hamlets that served nineteenth-century farming families, including New Germantown, Pottersville, and Cokesbury. The map records a complex landscape of township boundaries and tributary streams like Spruce Run and Mulhockaway Creek before modern infrastructure altered these local watersheds.