1922 Map of Carbondale

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Carbondale serves as the regional anchor in this early 1920s survey, showing the city's early street grid and its critical position along the Illinois Central railroad. The landscape to the south transitions into the broken terrain of the Shawnee Hills, where the rail line winds through the narrow valleys of Drury Creek to reach Makanda and Cobden. This era is defined by a dense network of one-room schoolhouses and country churches that supported a rural society before the consolidation of the mid-20th century.