1945 Map of Perry

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The Salt River meanders across the northern portion of this Ralls County landscape, creating a complex drainage network of creeks and branches including Pigeon Creek and Spencer Creek. In the mid-1940s, the town of Perry serves as a central hub, situated near the junction of the Hannibal and St Louis Highway and several local routes. Further south, the Alton railroad line cuts through the prairie, supporting the community of Farber and the nearby Alton Lake. The map reveals a dense rural infrastructure of one-room schoolhouses like Oakdale Sch and Wommach Sch, alongside family-named landmarks such as Bassingers Corner and Heavenridge. This pattern of settlement reflects an era when small agrarian communities and their local institutions still anchored the countryside before the consolidation of the mid-20th century.