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1964 Map of Glenn

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Glenn
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

Glenn sits at a geographic crossroads in the early 1960s, where the borders of Heard, Randolph, and Troup counties meet at the Georgia-Alabama line. The landscape is defined by a dense network of country churches that anchored these rural communities, including Bethel Ch, Mt Carry Ch, and Union Grove Ch. These congregations, often paired with small family or community burial grounds like Mt Zion Cem, provide essential evidence for genealogists tracing local family footprints across the state line.

Waterways like Wehadkee Creek and Whitewater Creek wind through the terrain, occasionally interrupted by signs of early industry such as a Prospect Pit. Small settlements and naming points like O'Neals Crossroads, Waresville, and Houston appear alongside established routes such as Liberty Hill Road and Moody Bridge Rd, showing a rural infrastructure that remained largely unchanged since the early 20th century.