1891 Map of Lambertville

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The Delaware River corridor serves as the central artery for this late 19th-century landscape, where the Delaware and Raritan Canal Feeder and the Pennsylvania Railroad Belvidere Division run in tight parallel along the eastern bank. The river towns of Lambertville and New Hope face each other across the water, connected by the Centre Bridge and flanked by islands such as Holcombe Island and Hendricks Island. Inland, the terrain rises toward Jericho Mountain and Bowmans Hill, revealing a dense network of upland settlements and family-named corners including Larisons Corner and Dilts Corner. This survey captures the region just as the industrial weight of the canal and rail lines defined local commerce, while small interior hamlets like Ringoes and Sergeantsville remained centers of agricultural life before the sprawl of the next century.