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1919 Map of Halltown

Name: 1919 Topographic Map of Halltown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1919
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1919

About this map

Paris Springs and Halltown anchor this southwestern Missouri landscape during a time when rural education was localized to dozens of neighborhood schools. The survey reveals a dense network of one-room schoolhouses, such as Tiede School, Blades School, and Buck Prairie School, each serving its respective township. The St Louis San Francisco railroad cuts through the southern reaches, connecting Billings and Logan to the wider regional economy.

Along the winding course of Turnback Creek, early commercial outposts like Garretts Store and spiritual centers such as Dover Church illustrate the social fabric of the Ozark border. The map also records numerous family and community landmarks, including McNeil Chapel and Wade Chapel Cemetery, providing essential data for those tracing the lineage of families settled between Marionville and Lawrenceburg after the Great War.