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1968 Map of Waterbury

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Waterbury
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The Naugatuck River valley serves as the industrial and transportation spine of this region, with the Penn Central railroad and a developing network of interchanges defining the urban landscape. In the early 1970s, Waterbury is shown as a dense hub of civic and religious institutions, featuring a concentration of parochial schools like SS Peter and Paul Sch and significant healthcare facilities including St Marys Hospital. The geography is characterized by prominent elevations such as Town Plot Hill and Burnt Hill, which separate the residential neighborhoods of Oakville and Waterville from the commercial core.

To the west, the landscape shifts toward the recreational and institutional grounds of Middlebury and Watertown, where the Taft Sch and the Waterbury Country Club reflect a different land-use pattern. Managed natural spaces like Mattatuck State Forest and the newly engineered Hop Brook Lake provide a counterpoint to the city's intense development, while numerous graveyards such as Riverside Cemetery and the Lithuanian Cemetery offer valuable data points for genealogical research.