1956 Map of Ephrata

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Ephrata and its surrounding townships define this Lancaster County landscape, where the Cocalico Creek winds past concentrated industrial and residential development. The map illustrates a transitional period of growth, anchored by the prominent Ephrata Mountain and the critical transportation corridor of the Pennsylvania Turnpike running across the northern reaches. This 1956 survey, updated with photo-inspected details from the early 1980s, reveals a dense network of local institutions that served the agricultural and growing suburban communities, including numerous country schoolhouses like Washington Sch and Fulton Sch.