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1970 Map of Poolesville

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Poolesville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

The Potomac River corridor serves as the western boundary of this 1970 landscape, where the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and its historic Towpath parallel the water's edge. A notable engineering landmark, the Monocacy Aqueduct, spans the Monocacy River near its mouth, illustrating the infrastructure of nineteenth-century transport alongside the modern Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Further inland, the map captures the rural character of northern Montgomery County through several crossroads communities, including Poolesville, Beallsville, and Barnesville.

Evidence of the region's agricultural and institutional transition appears south of Elmer at the National Institutes of Health Animal Farm. Local history is preserved through scattered landmarks like Elijah Ch and Warren Ch, and family heritage sites such as Mt Pleasant Cem. The terrain is marked by modest elevations like Scholls Hill and Iron Stone Ridge, which separate the river plains from the rolling uplands of the Dry Seneca Creek drainage.