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1953 Map of Fountain City

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Fountain City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

Fountain City and the northern outskirts of Knoxville are captured here in a period of significant post-war expansion. The landscape is defined by the parallel ridges of Black Oak Ridge and Sharp Ridge, which channel the development of neighborhoods like Inskip, Smithwood, and Highland Park. The map reveals a community well-served by institutions, including the Beverly Hills Sanatorium East Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital and numerous spiritual centers such as Mayes Chapel and Black Oak Heights Church.

Transport and recreation are intertwined with the area's growth, evidenced by the Southern Railway lines and leisure sites like the Whittle Springs Golf Club and a Drive-in theater near Crippen Gap. For genealogists, the density of family-named burial grounds like McHaffie Cemetery, Mynatt Cemetery, and Bayless Cemetery provides an invaluable record of the rural families who occupied the valleys between these ridges before the suburban sprawl of the late 20th century.