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1947 Map of Hightower Bald

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Hightower Bald
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Tate City sits deep in the mountain valleys along the Tallulah River in this postwar survey of the Georgia-North Carolina border. The landscape is defined by the high peaks of the Nantahala National Forest and Chattahoochee National Forest, where the Appalachian Trail winds through prominent gaps like Bly Gap and Plumorchard Gap. This era reveals a network of rural community landmarks, including the Plumorchard Ch and local education centers like the Pleasant Hill Sch and Tate City Sch.

Transport through this difficult terrain relies on early routes such as the Scenic Highway, while the southern reaches of the map show the headwaters of the Burton Reservoir. Genealogists and historians can trace family-named features like Dicks Creek, Keener Branch, and Nicholson Branch that indicate deep-rooted settlement patterns in these isolated coves before late-century development reached the high Blue Ridge.