
Avon and Prairie City anchor the northwestern Illinois prairie in this 1944 update of earlier twentieth-century surveys. The landscape is a study in early Midwestern rural infrastructure, defined by an incredibly dense network of one-room schoolhouses such as Oldtown School, Troy School, and Hazel Ridge School that served the farmstead families of the era. The Spoon River meanders through the eastern half, creating a corridor of more complex topography compared to the flat railroad-aligned towns.
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1912 · Canton
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1912 · Macomb
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1914 · Macomb
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1915 · Avon
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1916 · Good Hope
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1918 · Vermont
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1918 · Good Hope
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1921 · Vermont
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1921 · Monmouth
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1923 · Monmouth
USGS Topo · 1:62,500