1935 Map of Zalma

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The Castor River defines the rugged geography of this 1935 survey, winding through the hills of Bollinger and Wayne Counties before reaching the managed drainage of the southern lowlands. Around the community of Zalma, the landscape is a dense network of upland farms, marked by an exceptional number of local schools such as Patterson Sch and Baker Sch, and country churches including Antioch Ch. This era represents a significant transition in land use, as the northern ridges give way to the engineered landscape of the south, where Duck Creek and an extensive system of man-made channels like Ditch No 104 began to reclaim the swampy terrain for agriculture.