Following up on yesterday’s BB post about The Great Georgia Map Massacre of 2006, Dr. Paul J. Camp in the Physics department at Atlanta’s Spelman College says:
I’m guessing that Due West, despite the college, was removed from the Georgia map because it is in South Carolina. Maps are funny that way. Mount Berry, on the other hand, is inexplicable as it is fully contained within Georgia and in turn contains the famous Berry College.
The full list of removed towns is here: Link.
I’m pleased to note that the town named for one of my ancestors, Laney, Georgia (mom’s family), is not on the removal list. That may of course be because it was never on the map in the first place, being basically a ghost town encompassing parts of three roads and two farms. Satellite image here: Link.
There’s something cool about being related to a ghost town.
BB reader Andrew Filer says,
I’ve been working on photographing every town on the Minnesota map, as
well as from surrounding states/provinces: Link.I’ve found that the state’s map is
definitely the most accurate, while online maps range from showing
even the ghostliest of ghost towns (MSN Mappoint) to only showing
towns large enough to have their own government (Google Maps).
has recently made improvements though, and while tiny towns are still
often not searchable, they now show some hamlets at a deep zoom level.One such town is Lockhart, Minnesota (Google Maps link), which I’ve photographed here: Link.
About the image: Link.