Map of Saybrook Area, Connecticut
After a work byAfter a work by
United States Geological Survey
(American, founded 1879)
SurveyorGeology, ground-water conditions, and forest boundaries by
Arthur J. Ellis
(American, died 1921)
PrinterPrinted by
A. Hoen & Company
(American, founded 1848)
PublisherPublished by
United States Geological Survey
(American, founded 1879)
Date1915
MediumLithography; black and colored printer's inks on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 11 5/8 x 15 3/8in. (29.5 x 39.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 14 3/8 x 18 3/4in. (36.5 x 47.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2004.157.4
DescriptionMap of Saybrook, West Saybrook and Old Lyme, Connecticut, and the surrounding area, from Chester and Lyme to the north, East Lyme to the east, the Long Island Sound to the south, and Clinton to the west. Colors, lines and symbols are used to denote stratified drift, rock outcroppings, elevation, woods, ground water, dug or driven wells, drilled wells, and springs. There are numbers next to the wells and springs that correspond to numbers used in tables (not provided). Blue is used to denote water, including rivers, reservoirs, lakes and ponds. Local roads are depicted, with black squares probably representing buildings. The Valley Division and the Shore Line Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad run through the area.
Label TextContour intervals are a convenient and accurate way of depicting terrain. On this 1915 map of the area at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the contour interval is twenty feet. This means that the lines showing elevation are twenty vertical feet apart. Where the lines are very close together the terrain is be very steep, and where the lines are far apart, the slope is more gradual. The map also provides a great deal of information about the nature of the soil and rocks and the presence (or absence) of forest and clearly shows the salt marshes along the coast and the lower reaches of the river.
NotesCartographic Note: Scale: 1:62,500Status
Not on view
