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1934 Map of Morrison

Name: 1934 Topographic Map of Morrison
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Morrison serves as the focal point of this mid-1930s landscape, situated at the junction of critical rail lines and local roads. The town's proximity to French Creek and the Chicago and Northwestern RR illustrates the importance of rail-to-river logistics in Whiteside County. The surrounding townships, including Clyde, Genesee, and Hopkins, are defined by a dense network of country schoolhouses like Hiddleson Sch and Salem Sch, which were the social anchors for farming families before the consolidation of rural districts.

Southward, the Rock River flows past the small settlement of Como, while the Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR cuts across the northern terrain through Milledgeville. This era reveals a rural environment transitioning through the early days of modern surveying, as aerial photography from the Air Corps was first utilized to refine the locations of landmarks like Genesee Grove Ch and the many family-named cemeteries such as Calcord Cem and East Genesee Cem.