1964 Map of Bowling Green

About this map

The Old Indian Treaty Boundary slices diagonally across this Holmes County landscape, a historical marker of early land divisions that still influenced property lines and roads well into the mid-20th century. This rural territory is defined by the winding paths of Little Fannegusha Creek and Black Creek, with small settlements like Poplar Springs and Bowling Green serving as local anchors. For the family historian, the map is particularly dense with small country sanctuaries and burial grounds, including the First Pilgrim Rest Ch, Bethesda Chapel, and Mt Pleasant Ch. Numerous family-named cemeteries such as Thurman Cem, Rogers Cem, and Montgomery Cem are scattered across the terrain, indicating a deeply rooted population that maintained communal and family identity through these scattered landmarks even as modern infrastructure was beginning to modernize the rural south.