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1936 Map of Shooks Gap

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Shooks Gap
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1936
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1936

About this map

The French Broad River and Holston River converge here to form the headwaters of the Tennessee River, creating a landscape defined by prominent islands like Boyd Island and Dickenson Island. In the mid-1930s, the rural character of east Knoxville was anchored by the Southern Railway and a dense network of country schools and churches such as Hendrons Chapel and Sinking Springs Sch.

South of the river, the terrain rises into the ridges of Brown Mountain and Bays Mountain, where settlements like Shooks and Neuberts were connected by Tennessee State Highway No 35. This era predates significant suburban expansion, showing a river-dependent economy still utilizing the Riverdale Ferry and industry at Meades Quarry, while Johnson Bible College stood as a regional landmark near the banks of the French Broad.