1964 Map of Watkinsville

About this map

The Central of Georgia railroad serves as the spine of Oconee County on this 1964 survey, connecting the small agrarian hubs of Watkinsville, Bishop, and Farmington. The landscape is a network of small family cemeteries and rural congregations that define the social geography of the era. Genealogists will find numerous family-named burial grounds like Fullilove-Jackson Cem and Sheats-Thompson Cem, alongside local landmarks like Porters and the Southern Piedmont Experimental Station. The southwestern portion of the sheet is bounded by the winding Apalachee River, where the terrain transitions into the forested creek valleys of Jacks Creek and Bucks Cr. This map documents a traditional Georgia landscape just before suburban expansion from nearby Athens began to reach southward into these farming communities.