1946 Map of New Point

About this map

The New Point rail stop on the New York Central serves as the central hub of this mid-century rural landscape, straddling the line between Decatur and Franklin counties. The map captures a transition in transport and land use, where the high-speed rail corridor bisects a terrain defined by older, meandering waterways like Salt Creek and Laughery Creek. Small, distinct communities such as St Maurice and Enochsburg anchor the northern reaches, while the southern portion of the quadrangle is marked by isolated landmarks of rural social life, including New Pennington Ch and the Pocket Sch. The dense contour lines near the creek forks suggest a dissected landscape that constrained the straight-line development of early roads, forcing a patchwork of farm-to-market routes that still connected these family-named school districts and parish churches.