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1965 Map of Eads

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Eads
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The settlement of Eads and the surrounding rural landscapes of eastern Shelby County are captured here in the mid-1960s, a period defined by the transition from traditional farming communities to early suburban development. The Nashville and Louisville Road serves as a primary east-west corridor, linking established crossroads like Fisherville and Lenow. The area's social history is deeply rooted in its numerous country churches and family burial grounds, such as Chambers Chapel Cem and Bonnellson Cem, which dot the terrain alongside educational landmarks like Mt Pisgah High Sch.

Water management and recreation are central to this landscape, from the large recreational waters of Lakeland Lake and Paradise Lake in the northwest to the State Fish And Game Refuge and Herb Parsons Lake in the southeast. The survey also marks the Shelby Co Fayette Co boundary line, documenting a network of named secondary routes like Airline Road and Reid Hooker Road that connected the region's disparate farmsteads and small crossroads before the heavy expansion of the Memphis metropolitan area.