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1938 Map of St. Johnsbury

Name: 1938 Topographic Map of St. Johnsbury
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1938
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1938

About this map

St Johnsbury serves as the industrial and transport hub of this mid-1930s Vermont landscape, where the Canadian Pacific RR and Maine Central RR converge along the Passumpsic River. The map captures a transition in local infrastructure, featuring the St Johnsbury Airport and the modern Frank D Comerford Hydro-Electric Plant on the Connecticut River, while rural districts still rely on a network of named schoolhouses like the Pumpkin Hill Sch and Stark Sch.

Settlement patterns follow the high ground and narrow valleys, from the village at Danville Green to the remote Cabot Plains. Genealogists will find numerous family-named landmarks and water bodies, including Harvey Lake and Sarah Moor Pond, alongside now-faded centers of commerce such as Morses Mills and Ewells Mills. Several schools, including the Mountain District Sch, are already noted as abandoned by this era.