1946 Map of Young Womans Creek

About this map

Young Womans Creek carves a deep path through the plateau of the Stewardson and Chapman townships, defining a landscape of sharp ridges and narrow hollows. In the mid-1940s, this area of Clinton and Potter Counties was a dense network of timbering and transit history, where old logging paths like the Beechwood Trail and Cannon Hole Trail skirted high points such as Greenlick Ridge and Laurel Ridge. The map reveals the industrial infrastructure of the era through the Underground Pipe Line cutting across the southwestern slopes of Summerson Mtn. Dozens of named drainage features, from Shingle Mill Hollow to Little Italian Hollow, point to a history of small-scale resource extraction and local place-naming, while the confluence of the Left Branch with the main creek serves as the central focal point for the region's topography.