1958 Map of Fountain Head

About this map

West Fork Drakes Creek and its many tributaries, including Caney Fork and Sulphur Fork, carve a complex drainage pattern across this portion of Sumner County just south of the Kentucky line. The settlement at Fountain Head serves as a local hub along the Louisville and Nashville railroad, which dictates the placement of nearby communities like Buck Lodge. This era of the late 1950s shows a landscape still defined by its rural social centers, with Antioch Ch, Mt Moriah Ch, and Pipers Chapel anchoring small crossroads. Educational sites like Highland Academy and Parkers Chapel Sch highlight the distributed nature of the county's infrastructure before major modern consolidation. The map preserves several small, named locales such as Sengtown, Corinth, and Brackentown that illustrate the dense network of family-named settlements characteristic of Middle Tennessee's interior.