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1954 Map of Oswego East

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Oswego East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

Lake Ontario defines the northern reaches of this coastal landscape, where the Oswego River flows past industrial and transit hubs. In the mid-1950s, the eastern edge of Oswego shows a dense urban grid giving way to the sprawling grounds of Riverside Cemetery and St Peters Cemetery. Downriver, the community of Minetto sits alongside the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad, anchored by navigation infrastructure like Lock No. 5.

Away from the river, the township of Scriba is dotted with numbered rural schoolhouses, such as School No. 10 and School No. 8, and small crossroads settlements like Lansing and North Scriba. The terrain is characterized by long, north-south oriented ridges and wetlands like Paddy Pond and Crooks Pond. This era captures the region before modern highway expansion, emphasizing the traditional local road network including Suckerville Road and Deer and Ridge Road.