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1956 Map of Kennesaw

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Kennesaw
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Kennesaw and Woodstock anchor this mid-century portrait of Cobb and Cherokee counties, a landscape defined by its transition from rural farmsteads to a developing transportation corridor. The Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks cut a definitive north-south line through the terrain, paralleled by a network of local arteries including Nashville Road and Moon Station Road. This 1950s survey documents the area just after the creation of the Allatoona Reservoir, which shaped the northwestern topography along Kellogg Creek.

Smaller water features like Wooten Lake, Chastains Lakes, and Laura Lake are scattered among the land lots, which are meticulously numbered and divided into the 16th and 20th Districts. The map provides a clear look at the residential and agricultural layout before late-century suburbanization, marking the small settlement of Bascomb and the course of Noonday Creek as it winds toward the Little River.