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1906 Map of Ravenna

Name: 1906 Topographic Map of Ravenna
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1961
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1961

About this map

Portage County at the dawn of the twentieth century was a landscape defined by its agricultural townships and a robust spiderweb of early railroads. The city of Ravenna serves as the hub for this area, where the Erie RR and Baltimore And Ohio RR intersect. Outside the primary settlements, the map reveals a rural topography dotted with neighborhood institutions like Whippoorwill School and Evergreen School.

Transport was the lifeblood of these small communities, evidenced by numerous specialized rail stops such as New Milford Rootstown Sta, Freedom Station, and Palmyra Sta. The presence of small, now-obscure locales like Angerburg and Drakesburg provides essential data for genealogists tracing ancestral homesteads near the West Branch Mahoning River or the West Branch of the Cuyahoga. This 1906 survey captures the county just before modern road networks would begin to consolidate these distinct rail-dependent hamlets.