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1960 Map of Atmore

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Atmore
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

The town of Atmore serves as a bustling center of activity along the Louisville and Nashville railroad at the turn of the 1960s. The urban grid is dense with civic infrastructure, including the Armory, Hospital, and several educational facilities like the County Training Sch and Rachel-Patterson Sch. North of the main settlement, the vast State Prison Farm dominates the landscape along the transition into the wet bottoms of Weather Creek.

Rural life in the surrounding Escambia County area is anchored by scattered communities like Canoe, Robinsonville, and Martinville. Local history and genealogy are well-represented by family and community landmarks such as Oak Hill Cemetery, Bethel Ch, and New Home Ch. The landscape also reveals the industry of the era through various Gravel Pits and a Claypit north of Robinsonville, while Bachelor Field and the Radio Tower (WATM) highlight the mid-century modernizing of the Alabama-Florida borderlands.