Loading map...

1924 Map of Winston

Name: 1924 Topographic Map of Winston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1924
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1924

About this map

Winston and Altamont serve as central nodes in this rural Northwest Missouri landscape, where the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and the Kansas City Omaha And Eastern railroads intersect. The region is defined by a dense network of country schoolhouses, such as Roasting Ear School, Taylor Mills School, and Bell Tower School, illustrating a highly localized system of early 20th-century rural education.

To the northeast, the Grand River winds through Marion township, while the southwestern corner touches the edge of Cameron. Numerous small churches, including New Hope Church and New Salem Church, are scattered across the townships of Jefferson and Liberty. The map captures a moment before major highway development, when local travel relied on secondary routes and a patchwork of family-named landmarks like McCulley School and Wamsley Creek.