1914 Map of Coulterville

About this map

Coulterville stands as a central junction where the Illinois Central and Missouri and Illinois railroads intersect, anchoring a landscape defined by prairie agriculture and early 20th-century industrial transit. This portion of Southern Illinois, surveyed in the years before the Great War and revised as the second World War drew to a close, reveals a dense network of rural infrastructure, including a schoolhouse nearly every few miles. Notable rural centers like Gravel Hill School, Scotland School, and Plum Creek School served the families working the land between the Marys River and Galum Creek.