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Union, Connecticut Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Union, Connecticut from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Union building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Union, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Union artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Union. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Union brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Union, Connecticut and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Union map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks11
- Downtown
- Mashapaug
- Bald Hill
- Burley Hill
- Cat Rocks
- Bigelow Pond
- Breakneck Pond
- Nipmuck State Forest
- Yale Forest
- Bigelow Hollow State Park
- Camp Pomeraug
Streets and roads38
- Bigelow Hollow Road
- Buckley Highway
- Lawson Road
- Fish Point Road
- Holland Road
- Bush Road
- Mashapaug Road
- Bronson Road
- Paine Hill Road
- Stickney Hill Road
- Kinney Hollow Road
- Cemetery Road
- Old Brown Road
- Staffordville Road
- Webster Road
- Carion Road
- Barrows Road
- Breakneck Road
- Reed Road
- Ferry Tavern Road
- Jeep Trail
- Stickney Road
- Rindge Road
- George Heck Road
- Skopek Road
- Scranton Road
- Howard Road
- Hall Road
- Snow Hill Road
- Bradway Road
Show all 38 streets
- Massey Road
- Bald Hill Road
- Old Barrows Road
- Szych Road
- Bigelow Brook
- Whipple Lane
- Scranton Brook Lane
- Town Hall Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Union, Connecticut
Union is a town of 785 people in Tolland County, on the Massachusetts line, and the 2020 census counted fewer residents here than in any other Connecticut town. Money from the sale of its land went to Yale College, and settlement began in 1727, later than anywhere else in Connecticut east of the Connecticut River. Nineteen families, most of them from other Windham County towns, were living here when Union was incorporated in October 1734.
The church was organized in 1738 with the Rev. Ebenezer Wyman as its first minister, and the first meetinghouse went up in 1741. Wyman died young in 1745, and the town mourned him deeply. To pay for the ministry, the people asked the Assembly in 1750 to levy a charge on each acre in town for four years. The proprietors who owned the land complained that it brought in far more than the church needed, so in 1751 the Assembly lowered it.
“Here began the forest of Union, one of the smallest towns in the State and probably the wildest.”
- Where the Quinebaug beginsMap makers had the Quinebaug River rising in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and in 1819 a Connecticut gazetteer set out to correct them. It named Mashapaug and Breakneck, two ponds lying wholly inside Union, as the river's main sources, and said Roaring River and the Bigelow and Still rivers rose here too. Trout filled the streams, and the ponds held pike and perch.
- Nine sawmills, no lawyerThat 1819 gazetteer also took stock of how Union made its living. It found nine sawmills in town, along with a single grain mill, a single tannery and one doctor, and no lawyer at all.
- Mattresses and packing boxesLumber kept Mashapaug, the village by the lake, at work. Albert E. Weld's mill there made excelsior mattresses and ground grain, and Roscius Back joined him as partner in 1862. After fire destroyed the mill in October 1864, Back took up farming and lumber. Later, Frank and Amos J. Keefe's portable sawmills logged every timber stand near the lake, and in November 1895 they completed a Mashapaug box factory that turned their scrap into packing cases.
- A green that kept its pastEzra Horton built the oldest house on the green in 1759. The Congregational meetinghouse rose on the knoll above it in 1841, and the plain clapboard town hall followed in 1847; it now serves as the Union Historical Society Museum. In 1908 a rough granite slab was set in the Union Grove to mark where the first meetinghouse of 1741 stood, and Old Home Day still fills the pavilion every August.
- The top of eastern ConnecticutAt 1,015 feet, Union's town center stands higher than any other in eastern Connecticut. Burley Hill, in the northwest part of town, climbs to 1,315 feet, the highest ground in that half of the state. Interstate 84 also reaches its own Connecticut high point, 1,002 feet, as it crosses Union.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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