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1957 Map of Hartford

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Hartford
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

The agricultural landscape of Geneva County is anchored here by the hub of Hartford, where the grid of city streets meets the Louisville and Nashville railroad. This late-1950s survey reflects a community defined by its rural institutions, with numerous country churches such as St Paul Ch and Shiloh Ch distributed across the landscape. The infrastructure of the era is evident in the presence of the Pondtown Lookout Tower and the local center of government at City Hall.

Transitioning south toward the community of Black, the terrain is marked by numerous watercourses including Hurricane Creek and Justice Creek. Genealogists will find significant value in the detailed locations of family and community burial sites like Wright Chapel Cem and Spike Cem. A notable piece of local history is captured near the eastern edge of the sheet, where the Tate Jr High Sch is explicitly noted as abandoned at the time of the field check.