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1949 Map of Hudson

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Hudson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

Lake St Croix serves as the central artery for this late 1940s landscape, dividing the communities of Hudson and Lakeland across the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. The industrial and transit character of the riverfront is defined by the Chicago and North Western and Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroads, alongside a Toll Bridge and the Power Plant and Dam at Lake Mallalieu.

Away from the water, the terrain reveals a dense network of early mid-century rural institutions, including family-named schools like Ellmann Sch and Eastwood Sch, and landmarks such as Bissells Mounds. This map documents a period before major suburbanization, when the river valley was a collection of distinct villages like St Croix Beach and St Marys Point, and the uplands were characterized by small churches and cemeteries like Mound Prairie Cem and Rentz Ch.