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1972 Map of Bennettsville South

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Bennettsville South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Bennettsville serves as the hub of this mid-1970s landscape, with its dense grid of streets featuring City Hall, the Museum, and a cluster of local churches such as St Pauls Ch and Thomas Memorial Ch. The surrounding Marlboro County countryside is defined by an intricate network of waterways including Crooked Creek and Cottingham Creek, which supported early industry at sites like McCalls Millpond and Covington Millpond.

Evidence of shifting transportation patterns is visible in the active Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the presence of an Old Railroad Grade near the southern boundary. Further south, smaller communities like Blenheim and Monroe Crossroads appear alongside numerous rural landmarks, including Driggers Chapel and Macedonia Missionary Ch. The geography is anchored in the southwest by the Pee Dee River, which drains the complex series of branches and creeks that crisscross the agricultural and wooded terrain.