Northern Metro Atlanta, 1894

This is the Suwanee quadrangle which includes Roswell, Alpharetta, Cumming, Duluth, etc. This is the companion to the Atlanta quad posted earlier.

Click the thumbnail to expand.

Lake Lanier, a portion of which should be present here, was not impounded until 1956.

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1895 map of Atlanta and surrounding areas

Another gem from the USGS store.

This thumbnail shows the long-abandoned Roswell Branch of the Southern Railway where it joins the main line in Chamblee. Click to get a much larger map covering a much larger area.

Notice that most of the Chattahoochee are still ferries on this map, rather than bridges. Holcomb Ferry is located more or less where Holcomb Bridge road is now, and so are the others.

The Eastern Continental Divide is rather easier to see on this map than on a modern map, if you know where to look.

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1926 topographic map of Tuscaloosa

Screenshot of part of a PDF downloaded from the USGS map store. Click to enlarge.

Notice an additional rail line crossing the L&N, that I forgot to include on my map that I made with MS paint. This was the electric street railway. I have since edited that map to show it.

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Tuscaloosa rail map

The explanation I tried to give about the abandoned tracks in Tuscaloosa in my last post probably makes more sense if you look at this map. Click the map to enlarge it.

For reference, this is the photo of the “approximate photo location”:

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The main reference for the location of the street railway is here.