1958 Map of Covington

About this map

The Wabash River dominates this landscape, serving as a historic county line and an industrial corridor for western Indiana in the late 1950s. The town of Covington sits on the eastern bank, showing a grid of streets and a concentration of civic infrastructure near the Mallory Branch. The map traces the vestigial path of the Erie and Wabash Canal as it parallels the river, a reminder of an earlier transportation era that preceded the New York Central rail lines shown cutting through Foster and Johnsonville. Numerous rural burial grounds, including Gopher Hill Cem, Baltimore Cem, and Rogers Cem, are scattered across the surrounding townships of Kent and Steuben. This survey documents a transition in land use, from the dense topography of Hills and Coal Hollow to the established agricultural plains marked by the Galloway Chapel and Benson Chapel.