{"product_id":"old-map-of-franconia-new-hampshire-by-usgs-1929-lincoln-franconia-notch-mount-lafayette","title":"Old Map of Franconia, New Hampshire by USGS, 1929 – Lincoln, Franconia Notch \u0026 Mount Lafayette","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1967 from survey data first collected in 1929, the USGS map titled “Franconia” presents one of New Hampshire’s most dramatic mountain landscapes with the disciplined clarity of American topographic cartography. At a scale of 1:62,500, it encompasses Franconia and Lincoln, along with the rugged country of the White Mountains between and around them. The date pairing is especially evocative: the imprint belongs to the era of modern highways and expanding tourism, while the geographic intelligence reaches back to the interwar years, when mountain towns, logging remnants, rail corridors, and early recreation routes still shaped the region’s identity. The result is both a technical survey and a historical portrait of northern New Hampshire at a formative moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States Geological Survey, founded in 1879, became the great cartographic interpreter of the American landscape, and this map exemplifies its restrained but powerful visual language. Contour lines articulate the rise and fall of ridges, ravines, notches, and summits, while color gradations and standard USGS symbols distinguish roads, trails, waterways, settlements, and wooded terrain. Rather than dramatizing the mountains pictorially, the map reveals them through measurement: slope, elevation, drainage, and access. In the Franconia sheet, that method is particularly effective, because the terrain itself is so theatrical. The dense contours around Mount Lafayette, Mount Lincoln, Mount Liberty, and the Kinsman ranges give the viewer an immediate sense of steepness, altitude, and wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranconia Notch dominates the map’s historical and geographic imagination. This narrow mountain pass, framed by some of the highest peaks in New Hampshire, has long been a corridor of movement, scenery, and legend. Profile Lake appears within this celebrated landscape, associated for generations with views toward the Old Man of the Mountain, the granite profile that became an emblem of the state before its collapse in 2003. Nearby, Mount Lafayette and Mount Lincoln anchor the Franconia Ridge, one of the most revered hiking traverses in the Northeast. The map captures the region as both a natural amphitheater and a practical landscape of trails, roads, lakes, and streams, where alpine grandeur meets human passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the south and east, Lincoln and the Pemigewasset River introduce another layer of regional history. The town’s position near the White Mountains made it a gateway for travelers, hikers, and winter recreation, but it also belonged to the industrial and logging history of the Pemigewasset valley. The map includes places such as Livermore, a name that evokes the vanished logging settlements that once pushed deep into the mountains before being abandoned to forest regrowth. Franconia Falls, Gale River, Kinsman Notch, and numerous unnamed brooks and hills form a network of water and relief, showing how deeply the area’s human history has been governed by watershed, elevation, and access through the mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, the “Franconia” map invites comparison with the modern White Mountains, where conservation, tourism, ski development, highways, and protected recreation lands have transformed patterns of use. Yet the essential geography remains commanding: the notches still funnel movement, the rivers still define valleys, and the ridgelines still impose their formidable structure on the region. The inclusion of trails and recreational routes hints at the growing 20th-century importance of hiking, skiing, and scenic travel, while the careful depiction of contour and drainage preserves a more enduring truth. This is a map of a landscape both measured and mythic, where New Hampshire’s mountain culture is inscribed in every line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranconia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLincoln\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Franconia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoodsville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLivermore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePemigewasset River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranconia Notch State Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMount Lafayette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGale River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfile Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMount Lincoln\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranconia Falls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKinsman Notch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMount Liberty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBicycle trails\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral unnamed hills and streams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:62,500 topographical map titled \u003cstrong\u003e“Franconia.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInitial survey data was collected in \u003cstrong\u003e1929\u003c\/strong\u003e; the map was published with a \u003cstrong\u003e1967 imprint\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the \u003cstrong\u003eUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/strong\u003e, the federal agency responsible for mapping the United States since 1879.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses classic USGS topographic styling, including contour lines, elevation coloring, and standard symbols for roads, trails, and bodies of water.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepicts the rugged terrain of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, with significant elevation changes and natural landscapes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers insight into early 20th-century geographic knowledge of the region.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUseful for comparing historical land use, settlement patterns, transportation routes, and environmental change with modern maps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). 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