Chenoa, Illinois, 1869 – Antique Map Print
(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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This antique map of Chenoa, Illinois, 1869 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1869
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Chenoa, Illinois, 1869
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Chenoa, Illinois, in McLean County, was a young railroad town in 1869, having grown up in the late 1850s when the Chicago and Alton Railroad laid its line across the central prairie. Its livelihood rested on the farms that surrounded it, where corn, oats, and hogs were the main products, and the depot gave local growers a way to ship their crops to Chicago and other markets. Like many Illinois towns of its age, Chenoa was still defining its streets, churches, and civic institutions, and its residents measured progress by new buildings along the tracks. A bird's-eye view from this moment shows a community whose fortunes were tied closely to the railroad and to the open fields beyond its edges.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a. |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,504 × 3,288 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois 1869 |
| Reference | IL-Chenoa-1869 |
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