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1937 Map of Galloway

Name: 1937 Topographic Map of Galloway
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Galloway serves as a focal point for this Greene County landscape during the late 1930s, situated where the St Louis-San Francisco railroad cuts through the terrain. The map documents a dense network of rural infrastructure, from the Kinser Bridge crossing the James River to the numerous country schools like Oak Grove Sch and Plummer Sch that anchored local farming communities.

One distinctive characteristic of this era is the emergence of early aviation and industrial sites, notably the Springfield Airport Radio Station and an Oil Pumping Sta. The presence of several family-named landmarks, such as Parsley Cem and Jones Spring, alongside the transition to leisure space at Sequoia State Park, reveals a county in a moment of modernization while still deeply connected to its river-valley agricultural roots.