1946 Map of New Florence

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Montgomery City and the surrounding townships of Danville and Loutre anchor this mid-century Missouri landscape, where the railway and early aviation meet a dense network of rural schoolhouses and churches. The Wabash railroad cuts a diagonal path through the center, serving grain-and-cattle towns like New Florence and Jonesburg, while a local Emergency Airfield near Devaults Hollow signals the era's changing transportation. To the south, the terrain breaks into the deeply dissected hills of the Loutre River basin, marked by notable landforms like The Pinnacle and Mc Kittrick Hill. This map is particularly dense with genealogical markers, documenting dozens of neighborhood institutions such as Oak Grove Sch, Liberty Sch, and the Holness Mission, alongside the Wright Cem, providing a detailed record of the social geography before many of these smaller rural centers consolidated.