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1904 Map of Waterbury

Name: 1904 Topographic Map of Waterbury
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1940
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1940

About this map

The Naugatuck Division New York New Haven and Hartford railroad anchors this Litchfield and New Haven County landscape, tracing the river valley through industrial centers like Waterbury and Thomaston. The terrain transitions from the concentrated urban grid of Waterbury in the southeast to the upland pond-and-hill country of the northwest, where Bantam Lake and Quassapaug Pond dominate the local geography.

Smaller industrial and residential pockets such as Waterville, Oakville, and Terryville appear alongside family-named landmarks like Lattin Hill and Orenaug Hills. The map captures a moment of established rail-based commerce, showing the Watertown Branch and the Litchfield Br lines connecting outlying villages. For those tracing regional development, the detailed survey of the Naugatuck River corridor reveals the complex relationship between the waterway and the early 20th-century transportation networks that sustained these Connecticut mill towns.