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1989 Map of Ticonderoga

Name: 1989 Topographic Map of Ticonderoga
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

Adirondack Park dominates the western half of this 1989 region, where the Schroon River and Schroon Lake carve a north-south corridor through the mountains. To the east, across the narrow southern waters of Lake Champlain, the landscape shifts into the Green Mountains of Vermont. This map documents a borderland rich in Revolutionary War history, featuring the Mount Independence State Historic Site and Mount Defiance overlooking the strategic narrows.

Settlement patterns follow the water and rail, with the Delaware and Hudson RR hugging the Adirondack foothills while the Vermont Railway serves eastern valleys. From the paper mill town of Ticonderoga to the campus of Green Mountain College in Vermont, the map illustrates the late-20th-century balance between preserved wilderness areas like the Green Mountain National Forest and established corridor communities such as Chestertown and Crown Point.