1918 Map of Campbell Hill

About this map

Campbell Hill and the surrounding high ground of Wine Hill overlook the river bottomlands where the Mississippi River defines the border between Illinois and Missouri. This era reveals a landscape deeply connected to both rail and river traffic, with the Mobile and Ohio RR and the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern RR cutting through the interior while Wagners Landing and McLeans Pt serve the waterway. The complex river morphology is evident in features like Potato Bend, Liberty Bar, and Crains Island, alongside an extensive network of drainage ditches near Fountain Bluff. Settlement patterns are marked by numerous rural schoolhouses, including Ebenezer School, Tangen School, and the Lutheran School, which anchored small communities like Bremen and Shiloh Hill before modern consolidation altered the local social geography.