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1939 Map of Rouses Point

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Rouses Point
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1941
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1941

About this map

The border crossing at Rouses Point and the strategic waters of Lake Champlain define this 1939 survey, where the international boundary meets the state line between New York and Vermont. At the northernmost edge, Fort Montgomery and a Custom House stand guard over the Richelieu River, while the Rutland and Delaware and Hudson railroads converge to manage the flow of traffic between the two nations. The landscape is a network of peninsulas and islands, notably Isle La Motte and the peninsula of Point au Fer, which were critical navigation points in the early Republic.

Local life is recorded through a dense system of rural education and burial grounds, including the Doane Cem and several neighborhood institutions like Rogers Sch and Jerusalem Sch. Industrial activity is evident at the Quarry sites on the southern end of Isle La Motte, while the scattered settlements of Coopersville, Chazy, and Beekmantown show the established agricultural and ferry-landing patterns of the era before modern highway expansion.