1943 Map of Black Mountain

About this map

Black Mountain and the surrounding high country of the Blue Ridge Mountains are documented here during the early 1940s, a period of established institutional presence in the region. The map highlights significant religious and social centers including the Blue Ridge YMCA Camp, the Mountain Orphanage, and several congregational sites like Tabernacle Ch and Curteys Chapel. This landscape is deeply defined by its geography, where the eastern continental divide separates the headwaters of the Catawba River and the Broad River from the Swannanoa River basin.