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1946 Map of Talladega

Name: 1946 Topographic Map of Talladega
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

About this map

Talladega serves as the industrial and civic anchor of this mid-century landscape, where the Southern RR, Louisville and Nashville RR, and the Atlanta Birmingham and Coastal RR converge. This rail network supports textile manufacturing at Bemiston and local milling operations like Allison Mills and Reynolds Mill. The terrain is defined by the steep rises of the Giants Stairway and Talladega Mountain, the latter protected within the Talladega National Forest.

Social and educational life in the 1940s is reflected in a dense concentration of rural institutions. The map identifies the County Training School and several specialized local schools such as Jones View Sch and Morningstar Sch. Numerous small congregations are noted, including Hephzibah Ch, Africa Ch, and Rocky Mtn Ch, illustrating the distributed nature of community settlements before the modern era of rural consolidation.