1933 Map of Jerseyville

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Jerseyville stands as the central hub of this Depression-era survey, where the intersecting lines of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Chicago Springfield and St Louis Railroad define the local economy. The landscape is dense with rural education and civic markers, from the County Farm just outside the main settlement to a high concentration of country schools such as Hickory Log Sch and Green Persimmon Sch. These small schoolhouses, spaced across townships like English and Kane, reflect a highly localized social structure before the mid-century trend of district consolidation.