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The Map Inside: Connecticut Officials: 1957

This exhibit shows how the Connecticut official tourist map has changed since the 1930s. You can start with the introduction or browse year to year. The scans may not be actual size (150 dpi), but are consistent with each other.

Other years:
1930 1934 1935 1938 1941 1942 1943 1949 1952 1955 1956 1957 1959
1960 1961 1963 1965 1971 1972 1975 1989 1998 2000 2001 2002

1957 map excerpt, main map

Shown is the Wilton - Weston area, with two highways (routes 103 and 105) that were turned over to the towns in 1963. The cartographer, General Drafting, is using nearly the same style as it did for the 1949 map, its first official one for Connecticut.

Note the stylized ramps at Merritt Parkway interchanges. By the 1960s, Connecticut maps had moved to the plain white square to depict an interchange, except in city insets.

1957 map excerpt, city inset

Part of the Bridgeport inset is shown, about 2 miles east of the 1956 snapshot. The Connecticut Turnpike would open in early 1958.

Today, US 1 goes along the 1957 US 1A alignment, and Route 130 follows the old US 1.