1983 Map of Montville

About this map

Montville Center and Palmertown serve as focal points for this late-twentieth-century study of the New London County interior. The landscape is defined by its extensive water network, where industrial and municipal history is etched into the geography of Oxoboxo Lake, Konomoc Lake, and Bogue Brook Res. The suburban evolution of the early 1980s is evident in the residential expansion of Montville Manor and Oakdale Heights, yet the map retains significant traces of its earlier rural character through older nodes like Chesterfield and Macks Mill. To the west, the Nehantic State Forest preserves a large tract of undeveloped terrain, contrasting with the active utility corridors and numerous gravel operations found throughout the quadrangle. Educational and civic infrastructure, from the Montville High Sch to several local cemeteries, provides a grounded look at the community's structural layout before modern development further altered the region's historic hills.