1943 Map of Lebanon

About this map

Reading Railroad railroad lines anchor the valley's industrial and agricultural transport as it appeared in the early 1940s, connecting the urban core of Lebanon with outlying boroughs and rural meeting houses. The landscape is defined by the transition from the Mountain ridge of State Game Lands No 80 in the north to the fertile creek valleys of the Little Swatara and Tulpehocken Creek. Local social history is deeply etched into the map through an extensive network of family-named schools and religious sites, such as Koehenderfers Sch and the Ginrich Meeting House. The area around Coleman Memorial Park reflects the established community structure of West Lebanon and Hebron, while smaller hamlets like Shirksville and Wintersville populate the rural intersections of the Lebanon and Berks county line.