1956 Map of Crawfordsville

About this map

Wabash College anchors the historic core of this Montgomery County landscape, where the confluence of Sugar Creek and the Walnut Fork shaped early settlement patterns. This 1956 survey, later revised to include Conrail rail updates, reveals a dense social infrastructure of schools and public institutions including Horace Mann Sch, Tuttle Sch, and the central Courthouse. Beyond the urban grid of Crawfordsville, the map provides significant genealogical value through its preservation of numerous small family and community burial grounds, such as Breaks Cem, Thompson Cem, and Harshbarger Cem. The western reach of the map features Yountsville, situated near a bend in the creek, while leisure and education sites like Camp Rotary and Spring Ledge Country Club illustrate the community's mid-century expansion into the surrounding Ripley and Wayne townships.