1954 Map of Greenville

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Greenville and Anderson anchor this mid-century look at the Piedmont region, captured as the landscape transitioned through large-scale water management projects. The massive Hartwell Lake and Lake Sidney Lanier dominate the central and western sections, defining the new shorelines of the Savannah and Chestatee systems. To the northwest, the Blue Ridge mountains rise sharply, marked by peaks such as Brasstown Bald and Rabun Bald. The industrial and military footprint of the era is evident at Donaldson Air Force Base and throughout the dense network of the Southern Railway and Piedmont and Northern lines. This survey documents the connectivity between established textile centers like Spartanburg and Greenwood during a period of rapid infrastructure growth, as seen in the expanding paths of Us 29 and early interstate alignments.