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1958 Map of Franklinton

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Franklinton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Franklinton serves as the focal point of this mid-century survey of Washington Parish, where the Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad corridor tracks alongside the Bogue Chitto River. The landscape is a complex network of small rural settlements like Hackley, Clifton, and Warnerton, each defined by local landmarks such as Star Hill Ch and numerous family burial grounds including Bickham Cem and Magee Cem.

Educational and civic development is concentrated at the Washington Sch and High Sch in the parish seat. The topography reveals a land defined by its drainages, from the Potato Patch Branch to Hays Creek, interspersed with numerous Gravel Pits that suggest the local extractive economy of the 1950s. This survey records the pre-interstate character of the Louisiana-Mississippi borderlands, preserving the locations of country churches like Mt Pisgah Ch and Canaan Ch before modern consolidation.