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1925 Map of Barton

Name: 1925 Topographic Map of Barton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Barton and the Southern RR corridor dominate the northern edge of this 1925 survey, where the Tennessee River flows past Sevenmile Island. The landscape south of the river is a network of hollows and ridges, shaped by numerous waterways like Cane Creek and Little Bear Creek. This mid-1920s environment was characterized by small, decentralized rural communities, evidenced by the high density of neighborhood institutions such as Zion Sch, Mountain Spring Ch, and Thorn Sch.

Further south, the terrain becomes increasingly complex as it crosses the Colbert and Franklin County line. The settlement of Frankfort sits at a crossroads of winding dirt roads, surrounded by family-named landscape features like Thompson Hollow and Rogers Hollow. For those tracing local heritage, the map preserves the exact locations of vanished rural landmarks like Evening Shade Ch and Lime Rock Sch before modern land use altered the traditional settlement patterns of the Tennessee Valley hinterlands.