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1904 Map of Waterbury

Name: 1904 Topographic Map of Waterbury
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1908
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1908

About this map

The Naugatuck River corridor serves as the industrial and transit spine of this Connecticut landscape at the turn of the century. The dense urban footprint of Waterbury is clearly visible, with its concentrated street grids and rail connections, while smaller manufacturing outposts like Rockdale and Oakville sit just to the north. The New York New Haven and Hartford RR follows the river valley, facilitating the movement of goods and people between centers like Thomaston and Waterville.

To the west, the terrain shifts into a mosaic of hills and smaller agrarian settlements. Bantam Lake dominates the northwest corner, surrounded by the established town of Litchfield. For genealogists and local historians, the map preserves the exact locations of vanished junctions and family-named landmarks such as Reynolds Bridge, White Deer Rocks, and Bates Rock. This survey captures the region just as the industrial era reached its peak, before modern highways altered the traditional routes through the Orenaug Hills.