1958 Map of Linden

About this map

Linden and New Richmond serve as the primary hubs in this late 1950s survey of the Tippecanoe and Montgomery County line. The landscape is defined by a grid of rural roads and two major rail lines that intersect the region: the Monon and the New York Chicago and St Louis. This rail-and-road network supported an agricultural economy centered around the drainage basins of the North Fork Coal Creek and Black Creek. Local history is visible in the placement of the Wilson-Killen Cem and the settlement at Mt Pleasant. The map details the transition from the prairie-like flatlands of Randolph and Jackson townships into the more dissected drainage areas of Madison and Union, where numerous ditches like Stock Ditch managed the water across the farmsteads.