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1966 Map of Huddleston

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of Huddleston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

Huddleston and the surrounding rural crossroads of Bedford County are defined by a landscape of small family settlements and country parishes during the mid-1960s. The community of Waltons Store serves as a central point for the northeastern corner, while the Norfolk and Western railroad tracks follow the winding course of Goose Creek along the southern edge of the map. This corridor historically provided the primary transportation link for local agriculture and timber through the Piedmont terrain.

Genealogists and local researchers can identify numerous landmark locations, including Pecks Ch, Bethesda Ch, and Mt Horeb Ch, along with specific family burial sites like Leftwich Cem. The transition from the ridges of Turner Mountain and Johnson Mountain down to the creek bottoms at Preston Millpond reveals the traditional land use patterns of the era, where small-scale farming and crossroads commerce at places like Mentow and Gillespie remained the local standard before modern suburban expansion.