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1953 Map of Fort Jackson North

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Fort Jackson North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Fort Jackson Military Reservation dominates the eastern half of this landscape, characterized by tactical roads like Rifles Road and Enon Road weaving through the training grounds. To the west, the mid-century growth of Columbia is evident in the residential expansion of Forest Acres and Kilbourn Park. A notable concentration of social and medical infrastructure appears near State Park, including the South Carolina Sanatorium, the State Hospital, and the Carolina Orphanage.

Transport and recreation of the early 1950s are preserved here, from the State Park R R Station along the Southern Railway to the Alta Vista Drive-In Theater. For the genealogist, the map identifies numerous rural congregations such as Mount Pilgrim Church and Zion Canaan Church, alongside the State Hospital Cemetery. This era captures the transition between rural Richland County and the burgeoning suburban outskirts of the state capital.