1921 Map of White Sulphur Springs

About this map

White Sulphur Springs and the surrounding Greenbrier valley appear here during a period of established rail commerce and rural educational expansion. The landscape is defined by the Greenbrier River and the competing routes of the Chesapeake and Ohio RR and the historic James River and Kanawha Turnpike. This 1921 survey illustrates an incredibly dense network of community infrastructure, particularly the dozens of small district schools like the Balm of Gilead School, Blue Swamp School, and George School that served the outlying farming townships of Falling Spring and Williamsburg.