
Milford serves as the central hub of this agricultural landscape in eastern Iroquois County, where the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad intersects with multiple local lines. The map reveals an exceptionally dense network of early 20th-century rural education, featuring dozens of localized schoolhouses such as White College Sch, New Gothic Sch, and Fidelity Sch spaced at regular intervals across the townships of Belmont, Stockland, and Lovejoy. This pattern reflects the era of the one-room schoolhouse before the mid-century trend of district consolidation.
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