Aerial Photos, Old Maps and Stuff
This page is devoted to giving a
location to Muscogee, both in time and space,
and to providing a picture of what
the area looks like today from the air.
Old Maps and Muscogee
This is the earliest map I have run across that gives a name to
the Muscogee area. Here it is called Ship
Timber and has a rail head and a circle to mark its location. The map
legend gave the circle as being smaller than a city or town and listed it as a
village, post office, etc. The size of
the circle seems to indicate Ship Timber was about the population
of Bluff Springs or Burnt Corn. This map is from 1863.
Neither Ship Timber nor Muscogee is
named on this 1865 RR Map but the Junc & Perdido Line is shown going into that area. I have also found a RR link to the then
unnamed Muscogee/Ship Timber area in an 1862 map not shown on
this site. Note that Bay Minette was
called Bayou Minette back then.
1882 is
the first instance I have found the name Muscogee on a map.
This
1884 map also shows Muscogee as a named place.
Railroad
map from 1888 showing Muscogee linked to Cantonment
on the Pensacola & Louisville R.R. line.
Now on to the
Aerial Photographs.
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Note the Old Muscogee
Cemetery. It is shown in more detail in
the next photo. The old town of Muscogee
lay on the east side of the Perdido River and south of the cemetery. North is up in all photos.
Here you can begin to make out the
cleared east side and can see the perimeter road. For a closer view, a splendid set of three photos shot by Dr Paul
B. Merritt in Oct 2003 on a low flyover are just below. Click on any photo to see the larger
versions.
