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1907 Map of Weingarten

Name: 1907 Topographic Map of Weingarten
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

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Ste Genevieve anchors this 1907 survey of the Missouri shoreline, where the Mississippi River separates the mainland from Moro Island. The landscape is defined by an intricate network of waterways like River aux Vases and Saline Creek that cut through the Beckett Hills, providing the geographical framework for early German and French-inflected settlements. The industrial footprint of the era is evident in the presence of a Copper Mine and the active rail lines of the St Louis and San Francisco RR and the Southern RR.

Rural life is meticulously documented through a high density of country schools, including Knuckle School, Fine Valley School, and Burns School. Transportation routes like the Illinois Road and Plank Road connect small communities such as Zell, New Offenburg, and Weingarten, revealing the 19th-century infrastructure that sustained these agricultural and mining hubs before later modernization changed the valley floor.