Connecticut Hometown Map Prints

Connecticut hometown maps

Not simply a map of where you live.A memory of the best days of your life.

First you find the road. Then you remember the house, the people, the turn you made without thinking, and the days that still feel close enough to touch.

Find the place you rememberEvery Connecticut town, mapped
  • 169 towns and cities
  • Current roads and buildings
  • From $39.99
  • Free U.S. shipping
Close map detail showing familiar roads in Guilford, Connecticut
First, the road you recognize
The Andover map title and landmark guide
Then, the names that bring it back
Close map detail of New Haven, Connecticut
A place drawn as you remember it
Enlarged detail from the Litchfield, Connecticut town map
Litchfield, enlarged detail

The moment it becomes yours

First you find the road. Then the rest comes back.

A map becomes personal at the instant you recognize something: the route home, the water beyond the trees, the school down the road, or the center of town where everyone eventually crossed paths.

  • 01Current roads, building footprints, water and terrain, drawn town by town.
  • 02Public landmarks researched by name, with a place included only when it can be sourced.
  • 03Printed on heavyweight archival matte paper, framed in black or white if you choose.

Why most hometown art falls short

A place can be drawn correctly and still feel nothing like home.

The problem is not that your town lacks a story. Most wall art was designed to fill a room, not to hold the roads, houses, and names that made a life there.

01

It could belong to anyone.

Generic decoration may match the furniture, but it gives nobody a reason to walk closer, point, and begin a story.

02

It removes what locals notice.

Minimal street maps often strip away the houses, terrain, water, and landmarks that make one Connecticut town different from another.

03

It preserves the wrong moment.

An antique map can preserve history beautifully, but it cannot show the road, neighborhood, or home that shaped your own memories today.

Your town was never the problem. The map was.

If other hometown maps have felt strangely impersonal, it is not because the place means less than you remember. They were simply not made with enough local detail to awaken the memory.

Current roads, houses, terrain, and landmarks on the Greenwich map Barkhamsted map title and researched landmark guide

The modern town portrait

Why this map feels different when you know the town.

KNOWOL combines the useful truth of a current map with the presence of an old New England atlas. The result is not merely a record of where things are. It is a portrait built for recognition.

  1. Current roads show the routes you actually traveled.
  2. Individual buildings give familiar neighborhoods their shape.
  3. Terrain and water restore the character that minimalist maps erase.
  4. Public landmarks and a researched guide put local names back where they belong.
  5. Old-atlas composition turns all that present-day detail into something worthy of the wall.

Find the place

Which town holds your memories?

Search by name, then open the map and look for the road that brings everything else back.

The complete index

Every Connecticut memory starts somewhere.

Browse all 169 towns and cities, plus Storrs as a village of Mansfield. Choose the place you live now, the place you grew up, or the place you never really left.

A

4 maps

B

16 maps

C

13 maps

D

5 maps

E

12 maps

F

3 maps

G

7 maps

H

7 maps

K

3 maps

L

5 maps

M

12 maps

N

17 maps

O

4 maps

P

8 maps

R

4 maps

S

20 maps

T

5 maps

U

1 map

V

2 maps

W

22 maps

No town by that name. Try the first few letters, or clear the search to browse the index.

The map is the beginning. The stories are the point.

Someone finds a road. Someone else remembers a house. A neighbor points out the old route into town. The details turn a map into a reason for people to remember together.

From the KNOWOL workshop

How a town becomes a print.

The old-atlas feeling comes last. The place has to be right first.

I

The survey

We start with current public survey and elevation data for the town and its border, then draw the roads, the buildings, the water and the terrain at a scale where a single house is still visible.

II

The research

Then the slow part. Someone reads the town's own record to decide what belongs on the map: the landmarks a resident would name, the historic districts, the founding year. A place is only lettered once we can source it.

III

The engraving

The finished map is set in the style of a nineteenth century New England atlas, with the title panel, the lettering, and the muted inks of a plate that has been on a wall for a long time.

The print itself

Made for a wall, not a drawer.

A map worth looking at twice should be printed like one. Every order is made on heavyweight archival matte paper with fade resistant inks, then either rolled in a crush resistant tube or delivered framed and ready to hang.

  • Heavyweight archival matte paper
  • Fade resistant pigment inks
  • 3 sizes, from 12 by 18 to 24 by 36 inches
  • Slim Ayous wood frame in black or white
  • Shatterproof acrylic glazing on framed prints
  • Framed prints arrive assembled, hardware included
Connecticut town map print in a white wood frame
Greenwich, framed in white

Sizes and prices

Choose your print

The same price for every town, whether it is Hartford or Hartland.

Size Unframed Black or white frame Best in
12" x 18" $39.99 $89.99 A hallway, an office, a gallery wall
18" x 24" $59.99 $129.99 A study, a den, above a consoleMost popular
24" x 36" $89.99 $189.99 The statement size, over a sofa or mantel

Free U.S. shipping on every size

Questions

Asked and answered

Is my town really on here?

All 169 Connecticut towns and cities have their own map, plus Storrs, which is a village of Mansfield rather than a town of its own. Andover, Union, Scotland, Hartland and Voluntown are drawn with the same care as Hartford and New Haven.

Is this a historic map or a current one?

Current. The streets and buildings are drawn from present day survey data, so what you see is the town as it stands now. What is historic is the style: the shading, the lettering and the engraved title panel follow the conventions of a nineteenth century New England atlas.

How are the landmarks chosen?

Town by town, by hand. The rule is what a resident would name if asked what is in their town. Nothing is lettered on the map unless it can be sourced.

Which size should I choose?

The 12" x 18" suits a hallway, an office or a gallery wall. The 18" x 24" is the most popular and reads comfortably from a few feet away. The 24" x 36" is the statement size.

What is the frame like?

A slim Ayous wood frame in black or white, with lightweight shatterproof acrylic instead of glass. It arrives fully assembled with hanging hardware.

How long does it take to arrive?

Most orders ship within 3 to 5 business days and arrive within 7 to 10 business days total, with free U.S. shipping. If you need it by a particular date, write to us first and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.

What if something is wrong with it?

If a print arrives damaged or defective, email us and a replacement goes out. No fine print and no argument. KNOWOL has shipped more than 10,000 map orders and the delivery part is the part we have made easy.

Free U.S. shipping

Find the place you never really left.

All 169 Connecticut towns and cities, drawn as they stand today and made to bring the memories back.

Find your town

From $39.99 · Framed or unframed