1910 Map of Clay

Evidence of a dispersed rural economy is found in the scattered schoolhouses, including Rosetta School and Turkey School, which served the families living along the many forks of the Buffalo Creek. The complex river bends, such as Jack Bend and Eagle Bend, highlight the difficulty of travel before modern road networks, when the railroad and the river were the primary corridors for West Virginia's interior. To the south, the Chesapeake and Ohio RR cuts through the territory near Greendale and Dixie, reflecting the encroaching rail lines into the southern coalfields.