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1954 Map of Elm Park

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Elm Park
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

Audubon Memorial State Park serves as a central landmark in this mid-century survey of the West Feliciana uplands. The landscape is defined by the deep dissection of the terrain by Alexander Creek, Grants Bayou, and Thompson Creek, revealing a rural economy shifting between traditional plantation lands and newer institutional footprints. Large estates like Troy Plantation and Cottage Plantation appear alongside educational and spiritual centers such as the Rosendwald Sch and numerous country churches including Sage Hill Ch and McKowen Ch.

Transportation patterns are dominated by the Illinois Central railroad corridor and the Old Railroad Grade near the Mississippi River in the southwest. Small settlements and family-named locales like Beechwood, Elm Park, and Starhill are mapped with precision, documenting the locations of several private burial grounds such as Butler Cem and Washington Cem. This 1950s record provides a clear view of the parish before modern development, marking the transition from agricultural tracts to conserved forest and parkland.