1954 Map of Edgar Springs

About this map

Edgar Springs and the surrounding rural uplands of the Missouri Ozarks are documented here during the mid-1950s. The landscape is defined by the winding course of Little Piney Creek and its many tributaries, including Jackson Branch and Solomon Hollow. This era reveals a community closely tied to its local institutions, with small social centers like the Freeman Store and numerous country schools such as Mt Tabor School and Black Oak School scattered across the township boundaries of Spring Creek and Watkins.