Manteno, Illinois, 1869 – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Manteno, Illinois, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Manteno, Kankakee County, Illinois 1869
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Manteno, Illinois, 1869
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Manteno, Illinois, in 1869 was a young railroad stop on the prairie of northeastern Illinois, in the part of Kankakee County that the Illinois Central Railroad had opened to settlement in the 1850s. Its economy rested on the surrounding farms, where corn, oats, and livestock were raised on land that had recently been drained and broken for the plow. Grain and livestock moved out by rail to Chicago, the region's dominant market, so the depot and the shipping yards were the town's center of commerce. Residents in the years after the Civil War would have known Manteno chiefly as a farming community tied to the railroad, with its fortunes rising and falling alongside the prices of crops.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,364 × 3,368 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Manteno, Kankakee County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | IL-Manteno-1869 |
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