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1927 Map of Eutaw

Name: 1927 Topographic Map of Eutaw
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1927
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1927

About this map

Eutaw serves as the focal point of this Greene County landscape, situated just west of the winding Black Warrior River during the late 1920s. The map illustrates a rural society deeply connected to its land and water, with river-based transit points like Forches Ferry and Parhams Landing providing critical links between Greene and Hale Counties. The settlement pattern is defined by a high density of country schools and churches, such as the Rosenwald School and Jerusalem Church, which suggest the social structure of localized agricultural communities.

Transportation infrastructure shows the transition from river to rail, with the Southern Railway cutting through the eastern portion of the sheet near Akron. Significant wetland features, including the Jenny Watson Cypress Swamp and Dollarhide Swamp, dominate the lowlands near the river, while the presence of the County Poor Farm provides a rare cartographic record of early 20th-century social welfare institutions in rural Alabama.