Loading map...

1947 Map of Bedford

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Bedford
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

The Duck River winds through the northeast corner of this mid-century landscape, passing the crossing at Temple Ford. This era in the central Tennessee countryside shows a dense network of family-named landmarks and rural institutions that anchored the community. Scattered across the rolling drainage of Sinking Creek and Powell Creek are numerous small church-and-cemetery clusters, such as New Bethel Ch and Richmond Ch, which served the local farming population.

Education is deeply localized here, with several country schools like Thompson Grove Sch and Pleasant Grove Sch still standing in the 1940s. The southern portion of the sheet is dominated by the settlement of Richmond and nearby Branchville, where the terrain rises toward Davidson Hill. The presence of numerous family cemeteries, including Gaunt Cem, Coleman Cem, and Redd Cem, provides a significant resource for genealogists tracing lineage in this region of Bedford and Marshall counties.