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1963 Map of Piney River

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Piney River
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

About this map

Piney River and the Buffalo River carve through the foothills of the George Washington National Forest in this 1963 survey of the Amherst and Nelson County border. The landscape is defined by a rural economy of small community hubs and extractive industry, notably the numerous quarries, mine dumps, and a tailings pond clustered near the Piney River settlement. Transportation relies on the winding tracks of the Blue Ridge Railway and remnants of earlier infrastructure like the Old RR Grade near Thompson Mtn.

Local life centers on crossroads markers such as Henleys Store, Canodys Store, and Gidsville. Genealogists will find a high density of family-named burial grounds, including the Fulcher Cem, Beards Cem, and Henley Cem, alongside historic congregations like St Marys Ch and St Marks Ch. The presence of the Temperance Sch near Stonewall Creek further highlights the distributed nature of this mid-century Virginia mountain community.