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1959 Map of Fort Moultrie

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Fort Moultrie
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

Fort Moultrie and the Fort Sumter National Monument anchor this coastal survey, guarding the entrance to Charleston Harbor as it appeared in the late 1950s. The landscape is a complex network of barrier islands and tidal marshes, where Sullivans Island and the Isle of Palms show established residential street grids connected by the Sawyer Memorial Bridge and Thompson Memorial Bridge. Inland, the community of Mount Pleasant serves as a hub, surrounded by numerous country churches and schools such as Christ Church, Ebenezer Ch, and Moultrie High Sch.

A notable concentration of local history is found in the northern reaches near Snowden and along Mathis Ferry Road, where many small churches and cemeteries like Venning Cem and the Confederate Cem are documented. The transition from the rural acreage of Long Point to the growing suburbs of Mount Pleasant illustrates a period of significant coastal development before the modern expansion of the Charleston metropolitan area.