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1948 Map of Black River

Name: 1948 Topographic Map of Black River
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1948
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1948

About this map

Pine Camp U S Military Reservation dominates the central landscape of Jefferson County in the late 1940s, a sprawling facility that fundamentally reshaped the local geography. This survey captures the rural character of the region just as military expansion began to encompass older crossroads like LeRaysville and Gould Corners. The New York Central railroad provides a vital industrial spine, connecting the limestone quarrying around Calcium to the milling operations at Felts Mills and the namesake settlement of Black River.

Tracing the path of the Indian River and Pleasant Creek reveals a network of one-room schoolhouses, from School No 14 near Pamelia Four Corners to School No 12 near the Philadelphia town line. Genealogists will find particular value in the clearly marked family-named burial grounds, including Hoover Cem and St Marys Cem, which anchor the small agricultural communities between the established hubs of Evans Mills and the river valley mills.