1954 Map of Riverdale

About this map

Riverdale serves as the focal point of this mid-century landscape where the rural agricultural past met the early stages of suburban expansion south of Atlanta. Surveyed in the 1950s and updated with 1968 aerial data, the map reveals a high density of country churches that anchored these communities, including Bethel Ch, Pleasant Hill Ch, and Bethsaida Ch. The Central of Georgia railroad tracks cut a diagonal path through the terrain, connecting the burgeoning town centers of Red Oak and Forest Park to the surrounding countryside.