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1968 Map of Cheshire

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Cheshire
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

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The Ohio River dominates this landscape, serving as the industrial and transport spine for both Ohio and West Virginia. On the West Virginia bank, a concentrated infrastructure of river-and-rail industry is visible near West Columbia and the Lakin State Hospital. The presence of multiple Strip Mine operations and gravel pits across the ridges of Waggener and Cheshire townships highlights the region's mid-century reliance on resource extraction.

Social and agricultural institutions are well-marked, including the West Virginia University Experimental Station and the sprawling Clifton F Mc Clintic State Wildlife Station. For local historians, the map preserves the locations of numerous family and community landmarks such as Clifton Cem, Zirkle Cem, and Kirkland Memorial Gardens, alongside small riverfront settlements like Hallwood and Carlton that were tied to the Baltimore And Ohio and Chesapeake And Ohio lines.