
Dewitt serves as the primary rail hub in this late nineteenth-century portrait of Clinton County, Iowa. The landscape is defined by the convergence of major lines including the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad and the Chicago and North Western Railroad, which dictated the growth of early settlements like Grand Mound and Calamus. In the south, the Wapsipinicon River meanders across the border, shadowed by the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad near the small station of Noel.
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1890 · Durant
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1891 · DeWitt
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1891 · Davenport
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1891 · Maquoketa
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1891 · Baldwin
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1892 · Wheatland
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1892 · Goose Lake
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1892 · Leclaire
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1893 · Leclaire
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1894 · Wheatland
USGS Topo · 1:62,500