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. State maps did not include city insets until 1941, so we instead show a double-wide main map sample of the Danbury area.
Red lines are trunk line highways, green lines state aid, and brown lines other improved roads.
As in the contemporary National Survey maps of New England, route numbers are written beside the road instead of in markers. Kurumi Design, unless noted. Map excerpts are from maps copyrighted as noted.