1961 Map of Zanesville

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Little River and the Wabash RR define the northwest corner of this Indiana landscape, where the town of Roanoke sits at a critical junction of transport and early surveying history. The Old Indian Treaty Boundary cuts diagonally through the townships of Jackson and Union, a historical line that still influenced property and field patterns as seen in the 1960s. South of the river, the terrain is shaped by a network of drainage ways like Eightmile Creek and Flat Creek, supporting a rural community tied together by country churches and schools. Local history is recorded in sites like Monson Chapel, Lafayette Central Sch, and several small family burial grounds including Shank Cem and Arick Cem. The town of Zanesville anchors the southern portion of the quadrangle on the border between Allen and Wells counties, showing the established grid of early 1960s roads like Witzgall Road and Yoder Road.