1891 Map of Somerville

About this map

Somerville stands as the central hub of this late nineteenth-century landscape, situated at a critical convergence of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Raritan River. The industrial and agricultural character of the era is evident in the engineered Water Power Cos Raceway near Milltown and the sprawling rail networks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Lehigh Valley Railroad that crisscross the southern terrain. To the north, the topographic relief of Mine Mountain and the Watchung Range shapes the distribution of smaller villages such as Pluckamin and Peapack.