Our local paper, sometimes affectionately called the "crab wrapper", has started a Sunday column on local places to go hiking. This week they suggested Franklin Point State Park, and we were off.
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| Our route, on 2018 aerial imagery. Not much to see, either on the image or the ground, about the airfield that was apparently here. So I set off to see the history of the area in maps, courtesy of USGS. |
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| First map was from 1892. Not much there, except three small bays. |
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| 1905; a road is heading toward the water. |
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| 1944. Map from the Army Corps of Engineers. |
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| 1957. |
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| 1957--Army Map Service |
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| 1957 Army Map Service, with purple additions by USGS from 1970 aerial photography |
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| 1997 |
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| 2011. This was during a minimalist era for USGS, as they moved to automate map updates. |
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| 2014 |
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| 2014. The maps had an imagery layer, which only worked on a computer. |
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| 2016 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2019 |
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| Plotting our path of the 1997 map shows where the trails followed the old runways. |
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