1944 Map of Norwich

About this map

Norwich serves as the primary hub of this Chenango County landscape, situated along the Chenango River where the New York Ontario and Western RR and Delaware Lackawanna and Western RR intersect. The topography is defined by the steep divides of Tinker Ridge and several high hills such as Negro Hill and Sawmill Hill. This era shows a distributed rural society organized around a dense network of district schools, from School No 6 in the north to School No 12 near Preston. Large tracts of land are dedicated to conservation and state management, most notably the Pharsalia Game Refuge and the Slate Game Farm. Local heritage is preserved in numerous burial grounds including the Quaker Cem and Reynolds Cem, while smaller settlements like Sherburne Four Corners and South Plymouth anchor the valleys.