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1963 Map of Fred

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Fred
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Slaughter and the surrounding rural communities of East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge Parishes are captured here during a period of evolving land use in the early 1960s. The landscape is defined by the winding course of the Comite River and its numerous tributaries, including Redwood Creek and Sandy Creek. The map documents a dense network of local landmarks essential to parish genealogy, such as Chaneyville Sch and numerous country churches including Mount Pleasant Ch and Pine Grove Ch.

The settlement pattern follows established routes like the Port Hudson-Pride Road, connecting small clusters at Fred and Deerford. Evidence of the area's social history is found in its distributed cemeteries, from Overton Cem to Douglass Cem. While the town of Slaughter shows organized growth within its corporate boundary, much of the quadrangle remains a landscape of field lines and timber, punctuated by isolated sites like a Radio Tower and the Trailer Park near the southern border.