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1917 Map of Uniontown

Name: 1917 Topographic Map of Uniontown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1941
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1941

About this map

The Ohio River dominates this early twentieth-century survey, defining the border between Uniontown and Mount Vernon. The landscape is a complex network of backwaters and sloughs, including Mill Slough, Rattler Slough, and Hogan Slough, which weave around prominent islands like Diamond Island and Slim Island. This river-driven geography is punctuated by the industrial presence of the Illinois Central RR and the Louisville & Nashville RR, which facilitated trade and travel across the flat bottomlands known as Black Marsh.

Educational and religious life is exceptionally well-documented through a dense concentration of rural schoolhouses and churches. From the Mt Vernon Ferry School near the riverbanks to Burbanks Chapel School and Allens Chapel School further inland, these labels provide essential data for genealogists. The presence of specialized sites like Lippe Crossing and Caney Mound School indicates a period of established community nodes before mid-century modernization altered the local settlement patterns.