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1954 Map of New Brunswick

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of New Brunswick
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

Rutgers University and Douglass College anchor the urban landscape of New Brunswick during the mid-1950s, a period of significant suburban expansion in Middlesex County. The corridor along the Raritan River and the historic Delaware and Raritan Canal shows a dense network of industrial and academic infrastructure, while the newly constructed New Jersey Turnpike begins to slice through the surrounding townships.

Southward, the character of the land shifts toward smaller hamlets and rural crossroads such as Paulas Corners, Fresh Ponds, and Halls Corners. Notable institutional landmarks like the National Headquarters Boy Scouts of America and the County Workhouse are situated near the sprawling industrial tracts of Milltown and Spotswood. Water features like Farrington Lake and Westons Mills Pond provide the geographic structure for these residential developments, while numerous burial grounds including Elmwood Cemetery and the Abraham Cemetery offer significant points of interest for genealogical research.