1938 Map of Tontogany

About this map

Waterville stands at a sharp bend in the Maumee River, serving as a focal point for transportation and industry in the late 1930s. The landscape is defined by the heavy infrastructure of the New York Chicago and St Louis and Toledo and Ohio Central railroads, which cross the river near Granger Island. Local commerce and resource extraction are evident at the Waterville Quarry, while the river itself is dotted with prominent landforms like Missionary Island. A notable historic landmark, Roche de Boeuf, sits along the riverbank just south of the main settlement. The presence of Canal Road and Napoleon Road hints at the evolving thoroughfares that once followed early trade routes along the river corridor between Lucas and Wood Counties.