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1951 Map of Lyndonville

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Lyndonville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

Lyndonville and the Passumpsic River valley serve as the industrial and educational focal points for this Northeast Kingdom landscape as it appeared at mid-century. The presence of Lyndon Teachers College at the edge of Lyndon Center marks the era's institutional growth, while the Canadian Pacific railroad lines connect the villages of Lyndon, Sutton Sta, and Barton. The terrain is dominated by the dramatic gap at Lake Willoughby, flanked by Mt Pisgah and Mt Hor, a landscape that shaped the local transportation routes and timber interests.

Rural life is meticulously documented through a network of district schoolhouses and family-named cemeteries. Features like Old Red Sch, Pudding Hill Sch, and South Wheelock Cem offer precise data points for genealogists tracing ancestral homesteads. The transition from the valley floors to the high ridges of Wheelock Mtn and Stannard Mtn reveals how nineteenth-century settlement patterns were dictated by the complex water systems of Miller Run and Calendar Brook.