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1978 Map of Keedysville

Name: 1978 Topographic Map of Keedysville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Antietam Creek meanders through a landscape defined by Civil War memory and a distinct ridge-and-valley topography in the late 1970s. The western edge of the map preserves the National Battlefield Site near Sharpsburg, featuring numerous memorials such as the Philadelphia Brigade Monument and the Hawkins Zouaves Monument. This area is a critical resource for genealogists and historians tracing the terrain of the 1862 conflict, with the Antietam Nat Cem and various family-named sites like Mumma Cem clearly marked.

Further east, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad corridor links rural hamlets like Rohersville and Eakles Mills at the foot of Blue Ridge. The map documents a corridor of transit and recreation, showing the Appalachian Trail cresting South Mountain and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal following the Potomac River at the southern boundary. These layers of infrastructure, from the Rohersville Station to the Crystal Grottoes, reveal the enduring character of Washington County's agricultural and commemorative landscape.