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1916 Map of Milford Center

Name: 1916 Topographic Map of Milford Center
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1948
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1948

About this map

Marysville serves as a primary hub of rail and road activity, where the Chicago and St Louis RR and several major thoroughfares like Watkins Road intersect. This early twentieth-century landscape is defined by its agrarian infrastructure, punctuated by a network of localized schools such as Wolf School and Lombard School that served the surrounding rural townships. Near the northern edge of the village, the Industrial Home for Women stands as a notable institutional landmark.

Waterways like Darby Creek and Little Darby Creek carve through the terrain, influencing the placement of smaller settlements like Milford Center and Plain City. Industrial elements, including a Tile Factory in the south, reflect the era's local manufacturing base. The map captures a moment before modern highway expansion, where transit relied on a dense web of established local routes like Post Road and the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Road.