1940 Map of Liberty
USGS Topo · Published 1940About this map
William Jewell College overlooks the city of Liberty in this mid-1930s survey, anchoring a landscape where the upland bluffs of Clay County meet the wide floodplains of the Missouri River. The map reveals a complex infrastructure of the era, from the Federal Transient Camp and Helping Hand Farm to institutional landmarks like the Odd Fellows Home. A dense network of railroads, including the Wabash, Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, converges near Birmingham, illustrating the region's importance as a transportation crossroads north of the Blue River. Small rural schools like Withers Sch and Ewing Sch are scattered throughout the hills, providing a detailed record of the pre-war educational and social landscape for local researchers and genealogists.
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