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1942 Map of Mooers

Name: 1942 Topographic Map of Mooers
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

The northern edge of Clinton County meets the international border at the Canada United States line, where the village of Mooers stands as a gateway along the Rutland railroad. During the early 1940s, the landscape was a mosaic of agricultural clearings and dense wooded hills, punctuated by rural settlements like Mooers Forks and Woods Falls. The Great Chazy River and its North Branch dominate the northern drainage, while the southern terrain rises sharply toward Rand Hill and Big Hill in the town of Dannemora.

Genealogists can identify numerous small district schools, such as the Emerson Sch and White Sch, which served remote farming communities. Local industry and transit are evident in the path of the Delaware And Hudson railroad through West Chazy and the presence of U S Customs at the border. From the quiet waters of Miner Lake to the scattered headstones in Walker Cem, the map documents a traditional North Country economy before modern expansion.