1957 Map of Bruceville

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Cottonwood Creek and North Fork Cow Bayou carve through the landscape along the McLennan Co Falls Co border, where the rural character of Central Texas is preserved across decades of mapping. This survey, based on 1950s data with updates into the 1990s, documents the cluster of settlements at Lorena, Bruceville, Eddy, and Mooreville. The transport infrastructure is dominated by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad corridor, while the social geography is anchored by several family and community landmarks such as Cox Cem, Beulah Cem, and the Cottonwood Community Ctr. Notable for genealogists is the distribution of local burial grounds and churches like Cottonwood Ch and the Bruceville-Moore Cemetery, providing a specific record of the community's footprint before later 20th-century development altered the more established rural patterns.