1932 Map of Keene

About this map

Keene serves as the industrial and transport hub for Cheshire County in the early 1930s, where the Boston and Maine RR corridors converge near Beaver Brook. The landscape transitions from the Connecticut River valley at Hinsdale and Westmoreland into the upland forests of the Pisgah Reservoir area. Evidence of early 20th-century recreational and agricultural life is scattered throughout, from the summer camps like Camp Namaschaug on Spofford Lake to the rural County Farm and several neighborhood schoolhouses including Superior Sch and Harbor Sch. To the south, the Ashuelot River powers the mills of Ashuelot and Winchester, while the remote corners of Richmond show a network of small family-named peaks and wetlands like Tenant Swamp.