1960 Map of Albany

About this map

Albany sits as the primary crossroads in this 1960 survey of southeastern Ohio, where the New York Central railroad tracks cut through the township of Lee. The landscape is a complex network of narrow ridges and hollows defined by Leading Creek and the West Branch Shade River. Cultural markers of the mid-century era are prominent, including the State Agriculture Experiment Station and various industrial sites such as quarries, oil wells, and strip mines that reveal the region's extraction-based economy. For those tracing family lineage, the map identifies numerous small burial grounds and rural meeting places, from the School Lot Cem near Carpenter to Pearl Chapel and Mt Union Ch. These details, combined with mapped fence and field lines, offer a precise record of rural land use across the Athens and Meigs county border.