Click the link below to view a series of Edwardsville township plat maps from the Whitesides' earliest settlement up to the 1960s when SIUE was established. These maps are overlayed on top of contemporary maps of Edwardsville. You can also see the location of Whiteside cemetary and the Whiteside property boundaries
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Plat Map Sources
- 1815: 1853 copy of an 1815 plat map, from the Federal Township Plats of Illinois (1804 – 1891) website.
- 1861: Section from an 1861 map of Madison County, from the Library of Congress website.
- 1869: From road plats drawn by Surveyor Don Alonzo Spaulding, from the Madison County Recorder and Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois.
- 1873: From the Illustrated Encyclopedia and Atlas Map of Madison County, Illinois, from Historic Map Works.
- 1892: Section from an 1892 map of Madison County, from the Library of Congress website.
- 1906: From the Standard atlas of Madison County, Illinois, from the Library of Congress website.
- 1926: From Plat Book of Madison County, from the Madison County Historical Society.
- 1942: From Home Abstract and Title Company of Madison County, from the Madison County Historical Society.
- 1956: From From Plat Book: Madison County, Illinois, from the Madison County Historical Society.
- 1963: From Farm Plat Book: Madison County, from the Madison County Historical Society.
