1960 Map of Mitchell

About this map

Spring Mill State Park serves as a major focal point in this southern Indiana landscape, featuring the historic Spring Mill Village and the Purdue Experimental Orchard. The map illustrates a complex transportation network where the Baltimore and Ohio, Louisville and Nashville, and Monon railroads converge near the industrial and residential centers of Mitchell and Orleans. A unique historical marker, the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, cuts diagonally across the terrain, reflecting the early 19th-century division of the land. Further south, the winding path of the Lost River and the Muddy Fork dominate the rural landscape, punctuated by local landmarks like Union Chapel and the Orleans Airport. This record of the late 1940s and 1950s shows the region’s development before significant modern expansion, preserving the locations of rural cemeteries like Freedom Cem and the Burris Sch.