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1945 Map of Lowry City

Name: 1945 Topographic Map of Lowry City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1945
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1945

About this map

Lowry City and Brownington anchor this mid-1940s landscape, which straddles the border of Henry and St. Clair Counties. The rural infrastructure is remarkably dense with community institutions, featuring a network of country schools like Diamond Point Sch, Columbia Hall Sch, and Mount Zion Sch that served the farmsteads between the St Louis San Francisco railroad line and the meandering South Grand River.

A notable legacy of early industry is found near Brownington, where a Mine Dump indicates local extraction efforts. The area is deeply marked by family and community history, evidenced by numerous burial grounds including Brownington Cem, Maplewood Cem, and the small Denny Cem. Churches such as Bethlehem and Park Grove Ch further define the social geography of Butler and Osage townships at the end of the Second World War.