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1918 Map of Hortense

Name: 1918 Topographic Map of Hortense
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1918
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1918

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The Satilla River and its meandering tributaries dominate this 1917 survey of southeast Georgia, where the winding waterway defines the southern boundary between Wayne and Pierce counties. Small communities like Hortense and Trudie are connected by a network of logging and transport routes, including the Atlantic Coast Line and the Birmingham and Atlantic railroads. The landscape is heavily characterized by its wetlands, notably the expansive Penholoway Bay and Duck Pond Swamp.

Local life at the time centered on a series of rural landmarks, from family-named bluffs like Strickland Bluff to congregational hubs such as Smyrna Church and Oak Grove Church. River-based activity is evidenced by Rosin Landing, while the presence of numerous small schools like Philadelphia School and Strickland School reflects the distributed settlement pattern of these coastal plain pine lands before mid-century modernization changed the rural infrastructure.