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1951 Map of New Market

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of New Market
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1951
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1951

About this map

The settlement of New Market serves as the hub of this mid-century survey, where the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway cuts through the landscape near the Flint River. This area along the Tennessee-Alabama border is defined by a dense network of early rural institutions, including the Hopewell Ch Mountain Fork School, Plevna School, and numerous community houses of worship such as St Pauls Ch and Zion Progress Church.

Evidence of early land divisions is preserved in the marking of the Old Cherokee Boundary, which runs north-south through the eastern hills. The topography transitions from the valley floors of Hester Creek and Bethany Branch to the heights of Cedar Gap Mountain and Graveyard Hill. Family-named landmarks and cemeteries like Norris Cem and Petty Cem provide significant genealogical clues for researchers tracing the agrarian families of Madison and Lincoln counties.