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1959 Map of Legareville

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Legareville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

Johns Island and the surrounding Sea Island landscape appear here during the late 1950s, defined by a network of tidal creeks and scattered rural settlements. The map highlights the localized community centers that anchored island life, from Fenwick Crossroads to the historic settlement of Legareville near the Stono River. The presence of Plowed Ground and a borrow pit near Miller Hill reflect the agricultural and early developmental shifts occurring just before Charleston's suburban expansion reached this far south.

Institutional footprints are prominent, including numerous churches like St Johns Ch and Blessed Sacrament Ch, alongside schools such as Mt Zion Sch and Haut Gap Sch. These landmarks, along with the Johns Island Lookout Tower, provide essential reference points for those tracing the social and physical geography of the Lowcountry prior to the era of large-scale resort development on the neighboring Kiawah Island and James Island shorelines.