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1913 Map of North East

Name: 1913 Topographic Map of North East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Lake Erie defines the northern reaches of this landscape, where the shoreline is carved by a succession of parallel waterways including Twenty Mile Creek and Twelvemile Creek. During the early twentieth century, this region served as a vital transportation corridor between New York and Pennsylvania. The heavy infrastructure of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the New York Chicago and St Louis railroads runs parallel to Lake Road, supporting the agricultural and industrial hubs of North East and Harborcreek.

Away from the lake, the map reveals a dense network of early rural education and local commerce. Numerous schoolhouses, such as the Chestnut Grove School and Gospel Hill School, are distributed across the townships of Greenfield and Venango. Significant interior settlements like Wattsburg and Philipsville mark the crossings of French Creek, while smaller hamlets such as Bogus Corners and Owens Corners provide a look at the dispersed settlement patterns of Erie County before modern highway expansion.