1959 Map of Artesia

About this map

The Gulf Mobile And Ohio railroad serves as the industrial spine of this mid-century landscape, connecting the junction at Artesia with rural outposts like Crawford and Mayhew. This 1959 survey reveals a deeply settled agricultural region defined by a dense network of country schools and churches, reflecting the community structure of Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties before the consolidation of rural districts. Small schoolhouses such as Blackjack Sch and Truevine Sch are scattered throughout the territory, often situated near family cemeteries like Seitz Cem or Parrish Cem. To the southwest, the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge preserves the bottomlands along the Noxubee River, where the terrain transitions from the upland prairie into the swampy reaches of the Oktoc Br and Shotbag Creek.