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1935 Map of French Village

Name: 1935 Topographic Map of French Village
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1935
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1935

About this map

Belleville and the industrial suburbs of East St Louis dominate this mid-1930s landscape, illustrating a dense network of rail and electric transit lines. The East St Louis and Suburban and St Louis and Belleville Electric lines provide critical connections between the city centers and the growing residential pockets at Signal Hill and Edgemont. This era is defined by the proximity of education and leisure to industrial work, seen in the presence of St Henry College and Notre Dame Academy alongside the Gundlach Mines and various Clay Pits.

Public spaces and memorial sites are prominent, from the recreational grounds of Grand Marais Park to several significant burial grounds like Mt Carmel Cem and Booker Washington Cemetery. The map captures a moment when rural school districts, including Pocket Sch and Harmony Sch, still dotted the township borders of Stookey and Caseyville before post-war suburban expansion further consolidated the region.