1960 Map of Portland

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Portland serves as the bustling county seat in this early 1960s survey, defined by the crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Chicago and St Louis Railroad. The town’s social and civic heart is visible through labels for the Court House, Garfield Sch, and the local Drive-in Theater on the northwest edge of town. Outside the urban center, the landscape is a grid of agricultural land and managed woodlots, such as the John Cring Memorial Forest, drained by the meandering Salamonie River. Small peripheral settlements like Antiville, Liber, and Brice are connected by a network of numbered range roads, while rural landmarks such as Little Salamonie Ch and Fairview Ch mark the centers of outlying farming communities.