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1948 Map of South Sandisfield

Name: 1948 Topographic Map of South Sandisfield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1948
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1948

About this map

The borderlands of Berkshire and Litchfield counties appear here as a landscape of dense woodlands and high ridges, defined by the winding course of Sandy Brook and the high peaks of Woodruff Mountain and Haystack Mountain. This mid-century survey documents the transition from small rural hamlets like South Sandisfield and Southfield to the preservation of land within the Sandisfield State Forest. Evidence of earlier settlement is visible in the numerous burial grounds, such as Montville Cem and Huxley Cem, while the emerging recreational character of the area is seen at the YMCA Camp on Harmon Pond.

In the south, the terrain descends toward West Norfolk and the Blackberry River, where Haystack Mountain State Park and Campbells Falls State Park preserve the region's natural features. The mapping of St Marys Cem and the College Hill school site provides specific points of interest for those tracing family history in the Norfolk and Sandisfield area before late-20th-century development altered the local road networks.