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1947 Map of Manada Gap

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Manada Gap
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Indiantown Gap Military Reservation dominates the center of this 1947 landscape, illustrating the heavy military presence in the foothills of Dauphin County following World War II. The terrain is defined by the sharp, linear ridges of Peters Mountain, Sharp Mountain, and Second Mountain, which channel the flow of the Harrisburg Water Supply and Stony Creek. A notable feature for industrial historians is the Manada Furnace and the nearby Manada Furnace Church, remnants of the region's iron history situated south of the namesake Manada Gap.

Settlement patterns are concentrated around the village of Grantville, where the Grantville School and Webster School served the local community. The presence of a Dismantled Railroad cutting through the mountains suggests the shifting priorities of transportation and resource extraction as the mid-century era took hold, leaving behind a network of mountain roads and a Fire Road for forest management.