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1913 Map of Hollow Springs

Name: 1913 Topographic Map of Hollow Springs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1944
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1944

About this map

Bradyville and the high ridges of the Cumberland Watershed dominate this 1911 survey of the Tennessee hill country. The landscape is defined by a dense network of family-named hollows and ridges, such as Raines Ridge and Boogher Hill, where small communities supported an array of local institutions. Education and faith were central to life here, evidenced by the numerous small schoolhouses like Gnat Hill School, Ivy Bluff School, and Goose Pond School scattered across the valleys.

Transportation in the early twentieth century relied on established routes like the Murfreesboro Turnpike and the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis RR. These corridors linked rural outposts such as Hickersons Store and Wisers Store to larger markets. Along the Duck River and Barren Fork, the map reveals a traditional agrarian settlement pattern before the modern consolidation of rural infrastructure.