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1952 Map of Spencerport

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Spencerport
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

The Erie Canal cuts a definitive horizontal path across this Monroe County landscape, anchoring the village of Spencerport and the hamlet of Adams Basin. These settlements grew along the waterway, which remains a central geographic feature even as mid-century suburbanization began to touch the surrounding town of Ogden. To the south, Roberts Wesleyan College sits near the headwaters of Little Black Creek, marking the educational and social heart of the community.

Smaller, historically distinct locales such as Tinkerville, Catfield, and Town Pump are preserved here, many of which evolved from nineteenth-century crossroads and stage stops. The map details a transition from the agricultural heritage found at Parma Corners to the early industrial infrastructure of the Spencerport Waterworks and the Sewage Disposal Plant. Genealogists will find interest in the documented locations of Maple Grove Cem and several numbered schoolhouses like School No 2.