Worthsville is the Greenwood that predates Greenwood's growth — a historic community on the east side, centred on its old church, with homes that span from genuinely old farmhouses to the established streets built around them. Its drainage is the village kind: clay tile in the oldest runs, cast iron in the mid-century additions, laterals that have been repaired in sections across so many decades that a single line can be a museum of the trade's materials, each era joined to the last by a fitting and a hope.
Village lines like these fail village-style: one joint at a time, usually where two eras meet, almost always discovered by a symptom that seems too small for its cause. The mature trees that make Worthsville's streets lovely complete the picture. The neighbourhood's defence is the same as its character — knowledge kept locally and kept current. Owners here do best when they treat their lateral as part of the house's history: filmed, mapped, and maintained with the same respect as the structure above it.
