1953 Map of Blackburn

About this map

The town of Blackburn sits at the junction of the Lafayette Co Saline Co boundary, serving as a focal point for the surrounding agricultural townships of Elmwood and Salt Pond. In the early 1950s, this landscape was defined by its transition from traditional rural schoolhouses to consolidated districts, evidenced by several sites marked as decommissioned, including Carmean Sch and Salt Pond Sch. The local economy and transportation network rely on the Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad corridor, which parallels Ohio road through the northern territory.