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1926 Map of Rushville

Name: 1926 Topographic Map of Rushville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1926
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1926

About this map

The Rushville town grid serves as the hub of this 1920s Schuyler County landscape, where the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad line terminates in the center of town. This era reflects a high density of rural education and worship, with dozens of family-named schoolhouses and small chapels such as the Olive Branch School, White Sulphur School, and Ebenezer Church scattered across the township boundaries. The terrain is deeply defined by the branching tributaries of the La Moine River, Crooked Creek, and Missouri Creek, which create a complex network of ridges and valleys that dictated the placement of early homesteads.

Smaller settlements like Littleton and Ripley anchor the northern and southern reaches, while vanished locales such as Wayland and Erwin appear in the western hills. For the local historian, the map provides an exacting record of the early 20th-century road network and the specific placement of rural landmarks like Moore Chapel and Hale Ridge School before the modernization of the Illinois countryside.