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1949 Map of Abbeville

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Abbeville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

The town of Abbeville serves as the hub of this mid-century survey, its streets and structures concentrated at the junction of the Seaboard Air Line railway. Beyond the town limits, the landscape is defined by a dense network of rural institutions, including the County Farm and numerous schools like Edgewood Sch and Pine Grove Sch. The community's social and religious centers are well-documented, with family-history landmarks such as Upper Long Cane Ch and its neighboring Upper Long Cane Cem, as well as Cypress Chapel and Warrenton Ch.

Waterways like the Little River and Calhoun Creek carve through the terrain, which is bounded to the south by the Sumter National Forest Boundary. Researchers can trace the era's infrastructure through the presence of a Filtration Plant and local settlements such as Watts and Flagreed. The distribution of scattered homesteads and named branches like Cochran Branch illustrates a traditional Piedmont agricultural pattern just before the acceleration of modern development.