1928 Map of Mittineague

About this map

The Massachusetts Connecticut state line bisects this 1928 aerial compilation, illustrating the borderlands between Suffield and the northern towns of Southwick and Agawam. This advance sheet, based on U.S. Army Air Corps photography from the late 1920s, documents a landscape of agricultural fields and woodlots before significant suburban expansion. The N Y N H & H railroad cuts a straight north-south path through the center, crossing the Hampden Co Hartford Co boundary near where Still Brook drains the lowlands. While much of the sheet remains blank as an early-stage study, the southern portion provides a precise look at the rural roads and terrain around Buck Hill during the final years of the pre-Depression era.