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1942 Map of Springwater

Name: 1942 Topographic Map of Springwater
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

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Hemlock Lake, Canadice Lake, and Honeoye Lake dominate this 1942 landscape, where the deep glacial valleys of the Finger Lakes region shape the settlement patterns of Livingston and Ontario Counties. The village of Springwater serves as a southern anchor, situated at the confluence of valley roads and the Erie RR. The map reveals a highly structured rural education system, documented through numerous numbered schoolhouses such as School No 10 and School No 19, reflecting the density of the farming population before mid-century school consolidations.

Upland ridges like Bald Hill and Marrowback Hill separate the water bodies, connected by a network of named tracks including Bald Hill Road and Peglow Road. Small crossroads communities like Tabor Corners and Canadice Corners are meticulously detailed, alongside ancestral burying grounds like Evergreen Cem and Ford Cem, providing essential geographic data for genealogists and local historians tracing the early twentieth-century development of these lakeside townships.