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1903 Map of Princeton

Name: 1903 Topographic Map of Princeton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1903
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1903

About this map

Princeton serves as the central hub of this 1901 survey, where the convergence of the Evansville and Terre Haute R. R. and the Southern R. R. highlights the region's importance as a transportation corridor. The landscape is defined by the winding paths of the Wabash River, White River, and Patoka River, which carve through the lowlands and create distinctive features like Cypress Ponds and the Claypole Hills.

Evidence of earlier infrastructure is visible in the Wabash and Erie Canal (Abandoned) near Port Gibson, illustrating the shift from water-based transit to the rail dominance of the early twentieth century. Smaller agrarian communities like Lyles, Owensville, and Hazleton are interspersed among a network of drainage projects such as Mc Carty Ditch and Blair Ditch, which were critical for managing the fertile but wet bottomlands of Gibson County.