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1964 Map of Saylors Crossroads

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Saylors Crossroads
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Broadway Lake serves as a central landmark in this 1960s landscape, with recreation areas like Pine Lake Golf Club, Muldrow Park, and Allen Park hugging its shores. The map captures the southeastern expansion of Anderson and the community of Belhaven just as modern infrastructure, including the Southern railroad and several sewage disposal sites, began to overlay the older agrarian patterns.

Genealogists will find a wealth of specific local landmarks, from rural congregations like Rocky River Ch and Long Branch Ch to family-named resting places such as McFall Cem and Rice Cem. The southeastern corner is anchored by the rural junction at Saylors Crossroads, which sits near Wright Sch and Mount Bethel Ch. This document preserves the complex network of creeks, such as Hencoop Creek and Neals Creek, that defined property lines and settlement patterns before late-20th-century development altered the landscape.