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1956 Map of Havana North

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Havana North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Attapulgus Creek and its many branches, including Miller Branch and Gin Branch, drain this rolling landscape along the Georgia Florida state line during the mid-1950s. The region is defined by the Seaboard Air Line railroad, which links the northern settlement of Attapulgus down through Laingkat, Jamieson, and Hinson to the larger community of Havana in the south. The prevalence of family-named landmarks like Woodberry Cem, Griffin Cem, and Vickers Cem suggests a deeply rooted agricultural society.

Institutional life centers around small country churches and schools, such as Little Bethel Ch and the Mt Zion Sch (Abandoned), while the northern woods house a Boy Scout Camp and the settlement of Amsterdam. This survey captures a specific moment before the heavy modernization of the rural South, showing the precise locations of a Borrow Pit and the Watson Line across the Gadsden and Decatur county boundaries.