1957 Map of Quakertown

About this map

Quakertown serves as the focal point of this Bucks County survey, illustrating a period of mid-century expansion through pink-tinted urban extensions and newer developments like the Drive-in Theater and Pennridge Airport. The map captures the transition of rural townships like Richland and East Rockhill as they modernised, yet it still preserves the locations of older community anchors such as St Pauls Ch, Union Cem, and the rural Applebachsville settlement. An important geographic insight is found in the purple hatching at Nockamixon State Park, which identifies land designated to be submerged by a future dam at an elevation of 395 feet. This planned flooding of the Tohickon Creek valley represents a significant landscape shift, alongside the preservation of large tracts of State Game Lands No 139 and State Game Lands No 157.