1965 Map of Columbia

About this map

The Duck River winds through the heart of Maury County, framing the growth of Columbia as it expanded through the mid-1960s. This survey documents a period of significant urban development, noted by the emergence of residential tracts like Graymere Manor and Field Crest alongside established institutions such as Columbia Academy and the Columbia State Community College. The landscape is a mix of civic infrastructure and deep-rooted local history, with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad cutting north-south through the terrain. Evidence of the area's resource-based economy is visible in the numerous strip mines dotting the hillsides south of the city. For genealogists, the map is remarkably dense with family-named burial sites, from the Old County Farm Cemetery to the Zollicoffer Cemetery and the Birkett Hill Cemetery, offering a precise record of the county's ancestral landscape before later 20th-century modernization.