1980 Map of Florence

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The Illinois River corridor defines the western edge of this landscape, where the Norfolk and Western railway crosses the water near Naples. This 1980s record illustrates the extensive levee systems protecting the fertile bottomlands between the river and the rising bluffs to the east. Small agrarian settlements like Exeter, Oxville, and Bloomfield are scattered throughout the interior, connected by a network of rural roads and drainage ways like Mauvaise Terre Creek.