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1917 Map of Malone

Name: 1917 Topographic Map of Malone
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1917
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1917

About this map

Malone serves as the industrial and transportation hub for northern Franklin County on this survey conducted just before the United States entered the Great War. The landscape is defined by its sophisticated rail network, where the Rutland RR (Ogdensburg Division) intersects with the Adirondack Division New York Central at Malone Junction. This connectivity supported the scattered hamlets of Westville, Constable, and North Bangor.

Agricultural and social infrastructure of the era is remarkably well-documented, from the County Almshouse south of the main village to the numerous numbered schoolhouses, such as Stevens School, that dot the rural intersections. The topography shows the descent toward the international boundary, with the Salmon River and Titus River providing the drainage for the dairy and timber lands that characterized the northern New York borderlands during this period.