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1892 Map of Winsted

Name: 1892 Topographic Map of Winsted
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1892
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1892

About this map

Winsted serves as a major industrial and transportation hub in the late nineteenth century, where the Still River cuts through the steep terrain of the Litchfield Hills. The map captures the complex rail network required to service these mountain communities, showing the Central New England and Western Railroad winding eastward toward Colebrook Station and the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Naugatuck Division following the Naugatuck River valley south from Winsted through Burrville and Daytonville.

Outside the concentrated centers of Torrington and East Winsted, the landscape is a patchwork of small upland settlements like South Norfolk and Newfield. High-elevation water bodies like Highland Lake and Burr Reservoir are prominent, illustrating the region's reliance on these basins for industrial water power and local resources. The detailed topography reveals the isolation of early farmsteads and villages near peaks like Dutton Mountain and Ivy Mountain before modern highway expansion.