1960 Map of Saylorsburg

About this map

Saylorsburg and its surrounding mountain ridges dominate this mid-century portrait of Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The village rests near Saylors Lake, a central landmark in a landscape defined by the drainage of McMichael Creek and Cherry Creek. The map documents a period of transition, where traditional rural life—evidenced by local institutions like the Township Sch and numerous country churches such as St Johns Ch—met the emerging leisure and transit infrastructure of the 1950s and 1960s.