The Map Inside: the Connecticut Officials
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.I scanned each map at 150 dpi to keep them consistent and show detail. The scans may appear larger than life (up to 2x) depending on your monitor.
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.
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.
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