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1943 Map of West Lowville

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of West Lowville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Harrisburg and the surrounding Lewis County landscape are defined by a high-density network of rural schoolhouses and family-named roads during the early 1940s. The region is divided between the townships of Harrisburg Lowville and Martinsburg, featuring numerous numbered institutions like School No 11 and School No 16 that served isolated farmstead communities. This period of land use is characterized by a series of diagonal thoroughfares, including Number Three Road and Patten Road, which cut across the rolling terrain of Denlow Ridge.

Waterways like Stony Creek and Mill Creek drain the upland areas, while several local burial grounds, such as Gallup Cem and Rural Cem, provide vital genealogical markers for the families of Windecker and West Lowville. The map captures a moment when the rural agricultural economy was still anchored by these small, distributed centers of education and local commerce before the mid-century consolidation of rural districts.