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1946

Bond Brothers Wood Preserving, bottom left Standard Oil Refinery, just above lime ponds Road with median is Algonquin Parkway Note farms and open spaces

1951

Bond Brothers Wood Preserving, left center Parkway Drive-In, center right (later Big "A" Shopping Center) Cane Run Road, bottom left to top right Ralph Avenue and Cane Run Elementary, lower left

1963

Carbide lime pile collapsed onto Standard Oil to the north and across Bells Lane to the south Lime ponds replace Bond Brothers along Camp Ground Road MSD Fort Southworth wastewater treatment plant, top left Rohm and Haas starts operations, lower left Houses built in many formerly open areas near plants Cotter-Lang public housing partially built, top right

1970

Shawnee Expressway under construction Housing subdivisions encroach on industrial fencelines Cotter-Lang public housing, top right Carbide/Graphite, left center BF Goodrich, center DuPont and Reynolds Metals, lower left

1994

I-264 Bells Lane interchange, center BF Goodrich, partially owned by Zeon and Geon, left center

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