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1903 Map of Luzerne

Name: 1903 Topographic Map of Luzerne
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1940
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1940

About this map

The Hudson River carves a deep valley through the southern Adirondacks on this sheet, joined from the north by the Schroon River at Warrensburg. The landscape is dominated by the Luzerne Mountains and a series of prominent peaks including Potash Mt. and Bucktail Mt.. Settlement is concentrated along these river corridors and the Adirondack Division railroad, which follows the Hudson's western bank through Hadley and Stony Creek.

In the southwest, the Sacandaga Reservoir appears as a major hydro-geographical feature near Conklingville, while high-elevation waters like Efner Lake and Jenny Lake dot the southern hills. The map records a turn-of-the-century rural economy where small hamlets like Athol and Linwood served remote upland communities. The terrain is marked by family-named landmarks such as Gailey Hill and Jeffers Mt., reflecting the local genealogy of the Warren and Saratoga county borderlands.