1988 Map of Furman

About this map

Furman serves as the central hub for this Lowcountry landscape, situated at a junction of roads and rail history in the late 1980s. The map captures the small-town footprints of Scotia, Stafford, and Estill against a backdrop of dense wetlands and winding watercourses like Black Swamp and Johns Pen Creek. An interpretive highlight is the presence of an Old Railroad Grade running through the terrain, indicating the shifting transportation infrastructure that once served this rural timber and agricultural region. Numerous Cem markers and family-named locales such as De Loach and Stokes provide valuable reference points for genealogists tracing ancestral roots in the coastal plain. The terrain is characterized by numerous small bays and branches, including Filly Branch and Hurricane Branch, which feed into the larger swamp systems that define the Hampton County and Jasper County border lands.