1961 Map of Romney

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Romney and the surrounding agricultural townships of Union, Wea, Jackson, and Randolph are defined here by a network of drainage ditches and small creeks feeding toward the Wabash river. The Monon railroad corridor serves as the primary north-south spine, connecting smaller junctions and grain elevators like those at South Raub and Shadeland. This early 1960s landscape preserves several community focal points, including the Farmers Institute Ch and the Southwestern High Sch, alongside numerous family and community burial grounds such as Elmwood Cem and Mintonye Cem. The presence of several Gravel Pits and Gravel Pits near the watercourses suggests the local importance of aggregate extraction. Communications infrastructure is represented by multiple Radio Towers (WBAA) and Radio Towers (WAZY), marking the modernization of this rural Tippecanoe County landscape.