2024 Map of Storys Millpond

About this map

The Richmond Co and Burke Co boundary follows the winding course of McBean Creek through this transition from southern Augusta into rural Georgia. This terrain is defined by a dense network of water bodies, including Storys Millpond and several smaller impoundments like Woodwards Pond and Goldberg Pond. Historically significant sites are clustered in the western portion of the map, particularly near Hephzibah, where small family and community burial grounds are found among the woodlands. The inclusion of the Bines Slave Cem offers a rare and vital point of reference for genealogists and local historians documenting the region’s African American heritage and the antebellum landscape. Further south, the map follows the meandering Brier Creek and its many tributaries, such as Beaver Dam Creek and Hopeful Branch, which likely supported early local milling and agriculture.