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1954 Map of White House

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of White House
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

White House and the surrounding borderlands of Robertson and Sumner Counties are captured here as they appeared in the mid-1950s, with later highway updates through the 1970s. The landscape is defined by the headwaters of the Sulphur Fork Creek and Drakes Creek, where the transition from agriculture to regional connectivity is evident along the Blue Star Memorial Highway. A significant concentration of family-named cemeteries, such as Latimer Cem and Eidson-White Cem, suggests a deeply rooted residential history in communities like Baggettsville and Oakdale.

The springs at Tyree Springs stand out as a distinctive local cluster, featuring the Red Sulphur Spring, White Sulphur Spring, and Black Sulphur Spring. These features, along with numerous country churches like Concord Ch and Slaters Chapel, reflect the social and geological fabric of the Tennessee Highland Rim. The terrain is marked by numerous hollows, including Echo Hollow and Oil Well Hollow, which break the upland plateaus before descending toward The Narrows.