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1935 Map of Philadelphia

Name: 1935 Topographic Map of Philadelphia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1935
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1935

About this map

Philadelphia serves as the primary hub of this 1935 study, situated along the Southern railroad line near the boundary of Loudon and Monroe Counties. The landscape is defined by a series of parallel ridges, including Snow Ridge, Matlock Ridge, and Black Oak Ridge, which channel the flow of Sweetwater Creek and Pond Creek toward the Tennessee River. This era shows a rural society organized around small schoolhouses and country churches, such as the combined Stockton Valley Church and Snows School and the isolated Sunnyside School.

Evidence of local industry appears at the Lime Kiln near the Roane County line, while the Electric Power Transmission Line cutting across the valley signals the arrival of modern infrastructure under the Tennessee Valley Authority. The map records numerous family-named gaps and ridges, like Galyon Gap, providing specific points of interest for genealogists tracing ancestral land tracts in this part of East Tennessee.