1967 Map of New Brighton

About this map

The Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant occupies a massive footprint in this landscape, a significant federal presence amidst the rapid suburbanization of the late 1960s. This survey records the expansion of New Brighton, Arden Hills, and Shoreview, where residential developments are beginning to fill the spaces between numerous glacial lakes like Turtle Lake and Lake Johanna. The map captures a high density of educational and religious institutions, including Bethel Seminary and Nazareth Hall, alongside numerous schools such as Mounds View High Sch and Spring Lake Park Sch. Along the southwestern edge, the urban grid of Minneapolis and Columbia Heights is fully established, marked by large cemeteries like Hillside Cemetery and St Anthony Cem. Extensive purple-tinted areas from a 1991 revision illustrate the late-century growth that transformed former woodland and fields into the modern Twin Cities metro.