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1953 Map of Funkstown

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Funkstown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Antietam Creek carves a deeply sinuous path through the center of this Washington County landscape, a terrain defined by its limestone-belt agriculture and burgeoning mid-century transportation networks. To the north, the industrial outskirts of Hagerstown and the village of Funkstown show expansion around the intersection of major roads, while the State Penal Farm near Roxbury occupies a significant tract of land west of the creek.

Evidence of the area's older milling and agricultural economy persists in labels like Daubs Mill and Kline Mill, while newer developments of the early 1970s appear as purple revisions, including a Drive-in Theater and residential growth near Boonsboro. The eastern edge is sharply bounded by the rise of Short Hill and the Washington Monument State Park, where the ridge line marks a shift from the valley's rolling farms to steeper woodland terrain.