1943 Map of Rodman

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The Old Rome State Road anchors the western edge of this 1943 Jefferson County landscape, serving as a historic corridor through a region defined by its numerous rural schoolhouses and family cemeteries. At the heart of the terrain, Rodman and Lorraine sit as primary hubs connected by a network of winding local routes like the Waterville Lorraine Worth Center Road. This wartime-era survey, completed by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the War Department, provides an unusually dense record of early twentieth-century rural infrastructure, specifically noted in the distribution of one-room schools such as School No 3 and School No 11. The topography is deeply incised by complex drainage patterns, including Inman Gulf and Totman Gulf, where Sandy Creek and its branches have carved significant ravines into the plateau.