1961 Map of Milledgeville

About this map

Milledgeville and the surrounding agricultural townships of Jasper, Union, and Richland define this corner of the Virginia Military District in the early 1960s. The landscape is a network of rural routes like Ohio Miami Trace Road and Bloomingburg New Holland Rd that connect small rail-oriented settlements such as West Lancaster, Octa, and Jasper Mills. The confluence of the Baltimore and Ohio RR and Pennsylvania RR lines highlights the area's role as a transit corridor for Fayette and Clinton Counties. Many family-named landmarks and smaller cemeteries, including Hagler Cem and Mallow-Perrill Cem, remain as identifiers of the local genealogy. Waterways like Rattlesnake Creek and Sugar Creek carve through the farm lots, providing the primary natural drainage for the region's productive tillable land.