It wasn’t long before that single 1878 map expanded in the first Historical Oregon atlas, with other states following in short order. “And he set up a little company at the time called Treasure Chest Maps, and sold them, one map at a time, to bookstores or gift shops or whatever he could talk people into purchasing for two dollars.” “He took it to a print shop, and they reproduced this map,” Ramus said. “One of his customers at the time showed him a map of Oregon from 1878, and he was absolutely enthralled,” Sue Ramus said. And it was there – sometime in the late 1960s – when an old map changed the course of his life. By the 1960s, with help from his wife, he was running his own service station in Corvallis, Oregon.
He made $12 a week and he gave his mother half for groceries.”Īfter serving in the Navy in World War II and then working for a time as a logger, Ralph Preston got into the service station business in his hometown. “And he said the local policeman knew was only 14, but he just turned the other way because all the able-bodied guys were at war. “He went to work at 14 driving a delivery truck for groceries,” Ramus said. And, as if the old maps weren’t enough, Preston’s books are also packed with vintage photos, and often a poem or two. The atlases make no promises or guarantees of lost treasure, but the whiff of forgotten places and things waiting to be found is a kind of historic catnip to a certain demographic or armchair explorer. Users can flip through the pages of different maps from different eras and readily see and compare the changes over the decades – and perhaps even find, as language on the front covers tease, “Overland Stage Routes. Preston’s old atlases remain a valuable and distinctive resource because each volume features an assortment of public domain vintage maps originally published by governments, railroads, and other entities from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Or, if you’re lucky, you might find one on your parents’ or grandparents’ bookshelf. Here it is covering Chicago from Navy Pier to Chinatown, and UIC to Lake Shore Drive.The volumes that cover the Pacific Northwest – Early Washington, Historical Oregon, and Early Idaho – have been out of print for many years, but copies can often be found for sale at online auction sites or from used booksellers. What does 4,000 acres look like? 6 square miles. It would stretch from Lincoln Park to Sox Park and from Kedzie Ave to Soldier Field. The sole purpose of this drawing is to illustrate the massive size and scale of the project. This “conceptual” overlay map shows the same footprint of the proposed Compass Business Park on top of the City of Chicago. It would stretch from Joliet Junior College to Louis Joliet Mall to Slammers Stadium.
The sole purpose is to illustrate the massive size and scale of the project. This “conceptual” overlay map shows the same footprint of the proposed Compass Business Park on top of the City of Joliet. (The Manhattan-Joliet boundary agreement expires in 2026) The orange dotted line borders the Village of Manhattan planning area on the east. Cyan colored background shows area added for Joliet. It is also more than 6 miles from any major expressway.Ĭompass Global Logistics Hub bounded in red. It covers nearly 4000 acres (~6 square miles) and is approximately 4 miles wide by 5 miles long. NEW! Click here for a fully interactive Google Map of the project footprint This is the 2021 proposed Compass Project as an overlay on top of satellite imagery of the actual location.
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