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1961 Map of Henderson

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Henderson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

Pinson Indian Mounds stand as a prominent archaeological landmark in the northern reaches of this West Tennessee landscape, situated near the winding course of the South Fork Forked Deer River. The town of Henderson serves as the regional hub, characterized by its educational and civic institutions like Freed Hardeman College, the High Sch, and the County Training Sch. The infrastructure of the early 1960s is defined by the Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad corridor, which links the northern settlement of Pinson with the larger community of Henderson.

Rural life is anchored by a dense network of country churches and family burial grounds, including Antioch Ch, Pisgah Cem, and the Montezuma Cem near the small community of Montezuma. To the southwest, the boundary of Chickasaw State Park indicates a shift from the cultivated agricultural fields and timbered creek bottoms of Turkey Creek and Sugar Creek toward protected woodland, while the Madison Co Chester Co line cuts through the rolling terrain between these established rural outposts.