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1962 Map of Princeton

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Princeton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Princeton serves as the focal point of this regional study, showing the city's development alongside the Norfolk and Western rail lines during the early 1960s. The urban grid includes civic anchors like the Courthouse and City Hall, while residential outskirts reach toward Lilly Grove and the neighborhood of Stumpy Bottom. Beyond the city, the landscape is defined by the steep parallel ridges of Beaver Pond Ridge and Stony Ridge, which channel local transit and agriculture into narrow valleys.

Genealogists will find a high density of family-named burial sites across the hills, such as Shumate Cem and the Types and Ferguson Cem. The southern portion of the map transitions into the Jefferson National Forest, where the terrain rises toward East River Mountain and the state border. Scattered rural institutions like Johnston Chapel and Williams Chapel mark the small communities of Hardy and Niday, preserving the locations of social centers that defined mid-century life in Mercer County.