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1943 Map of Seneca Falls

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Seneca Falls
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Seneca Falls and Waterloo serve as the industrial and transportation anchors for this Finger Lakes landscape during the mid-1940s. The region is defined by the heavy infrastructure of the Cayuga and Seneca Canal and the Barge Canal, which cut through the northern reaches of the Montezuma Marsh. The rail network is equally dense, featuring the New York Central and Lehigh Valley lines meeting at Lehigh Valley Junc.

Away from the central river corridor, the map reveals a rural landscape organized by numbered school districts, such as School No 5 and School No 8, and small burial grounds like Fox Cem and Traver Cem. The inclusion of the Fairgrounds in Waterloo and the early Landing Field near the southern boundary highlights the civic and emerging aviation needs of the era, while the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge preserves the vast wetlands of the Clyde River valley.