1959 Map of Florida

About this map

The Maumee River serves as the central geographic axis of this Henry County landscape, where the settlement of Florida overlooks a bend featuring Girty Island and Sand Island. The river valley carries the remnants of the MIAMI AND ERIE CANAL, marked as abandoned by the late 1950s, signaling the end of an earlier era of waterborne transit. On the higher ground, the regional economy is defined by a grid of agricultural section lines and the crucial crossings of the Norfolk and Western and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads.