1971 Map of Ayersville

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The Dan River curves through the southwestern corner of this 1970s landscape, while the interior is defined by a dense network of watercourses including Big Beaver Island Creek, Buffalo Creek, and Reed Creek. Small rural communities and crossroads settlements such as Sandy Ridge, Ayersville, and Dodgetown anchor the hills of Stokes and Rockingham counties. The map reflects a deeply established social fabric evidenced by numerous country churches, including Oak Grove Ch, Mt Hermon Ch, and Bethesda Ch. Local historians will find the terrain marked by several unnamed cemeteries and the Byrd Memorial near Madison. The distribution of structures along secondary roads and occasional Jeep Trails illustrates the persistent rural character of this Piedmont region decades after the initial photogrammetric surveys of the mid-1960s.