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1969 Map of Wellborn

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Wellborn
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Wellborn serves as the central hub of this North Florida landscape, where the Seaboard Coast Line railroad dictates the orientation of the town's small street grid. The surrounding countryside is defined by an intricate network of sinkholes and ponds, including Grissom Hole, Classy Pond, and the larger Lake Ogden. The terrain's karst character is evident in the numerous depressions and isolated water bodies scattered across the Suwannee and Columbia county line.

Rural community life in the late 1960s is anchored by scattered country churches and family burying grounds. Genealogists can locate Mt Pleasant Ch and its adjacent Mt Pleasant Cem, as well as Fellowship Ch and Fellowship Cem. Transportation is limited to narrow local routes like Troy Road and Anderson Road, alongside a small Landing Strip north of the railroad, illustrating a quiet agricultural era before modern interstate expansion fully reached this section of the panhandle.