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1954 Map of Hookstown

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Hookstown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

Hookstown serves as a central hub in this western Pennsylvania landscape, where rural life meets industrial river traffic along the south bank of the Ohio River. The northern boundary is defined by the heavy infrastructure of the Pennsylvania and Lake Erie RR and Shippingport, featuring prominent oil tanks and a tipple that signal the era’s energy economy. Further south, the terrain transitions into a dense network of local landmarks, including the Hookstown Grange and a racetrack.

Deeply informative for genealogists, the map preserves the locations of numerous country institutions like the Mill Creek Ch and Reed Sch, alongside family-oriented cemeteries such as Hookstown Cem and Mill Cr Hill Cem. The southern reach is dominated by the nascent Raccoon Creek State Park, showing the early footprint of its State Park Headquarters, boathouse, and bathhouses before decades of further development altered the park's interior.