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1926 Map of Wyoming

Name: 1926 Topographic Map of Wyoming
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1926
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1926

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The Pennsylvania RR corridor anchors this 1926 survey of central Delaware, tracing a line of commerce through Dover, Wyoming, and Camden. To the north, the State College grounds and the County Poor Farm mark significant civic landmarks of the era. The landscape is a dense network of agricultural crossroads and small rural nodes, many identified by family-named junctions like Dinahs Corner, Casson Corner, and Wrights Crossroads.

Education and faith provide the primary social structure for the backcountry, visible in the dozens of rural schools and chapels such as Chestnut Grove School and Bethesda Church. Waterways like Duck Creek and the Leipsic River drain the terrain toward the coast, while local industry is noted at sites like Voshell Mill and Lexington Mill. The emergence of modern transit is signaled by the Dupont Highway, cutting a straight path through the traditional settlement patterns of Kent County.