Historic Map - Belleville, IL - 1867
Description
View of Belleville, St. Clair County, I.L., 1867 / drawn & published by A. Ruger.
This panoramic print of Belleville, Illinois was drawn by Albert Ruger and published by Chicago Lith. Co. in 1867. In the years following the American Civil War, Belleville was making a name for itself as a manufacturing center producing cigars, beer and all sorts of metal products, especially iron stoves.
Bituminous coal was found in abundance and Belleville was emerging as a valuable fuel supplier for nearby St. Louis.
The map from 1867 includes labeled streets, buildings and railroad route.
Features references to the following locations:
- Public Square.
- Court House.
- District School Houses.
- Turner Hall.
- Engine Houses.
- Railroad Depot.
- Market House.
- Coal Mines.
- German Protestant Church.
- Presbyterian Church.
- Baptist Church.
- Methodist Church.
- German Methodist Church.
- Catholic Church.
- Convent of the Immaculate Conception.
- Thomas House.
- National House.
- Belleville House.
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