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1936 Map of Belfast

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Belfast
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1936
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1936

About this map

The Belfast community and nearby Farmington anchor this rural landscape during a period of transition in Middle Tennessee. The Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad line cuts through the center of the sheet, serving as a primary corridor for commerce and travel between small agrarian settlements. The terrain is defined by the prominent Elk Ridge to the south and the Elk River Valley, with numerous waterways like Belfast Creek and Rock Creek draining the limestone-rich soils.

Social life in the 1930s is documented through an extensive network of rural institutions, including Rocky Point Ch, Liberty Ch, and schools like Union Sch and Leonard Sch. Family history is deeply etched into the land at Bills Cem and Temple Cem, while the early infrastructure of the Tennessee Electric Power Company Trans Line signals the coming of modernized utilities to this portion of Marshall and Bedford Counties.