Abstract
Currently, east central Illinois represents the heart of America's corn and soybean belt and contains some of the nation's most valuable agricultural land. The area, however, was not always viewed favourably, for initially this was a landscape stigmatized for its sloughs, swamps, and presence of malaria, making it a region which repelled travelers. It was the last section of the state settled. A search of verbal, cartographic, and pictorial imagery from immigrant guidebooks, travelers, settlers, and nineteenth-century maps revealed that the attention the wet lands received was disproportionate to the area they occupied. In landscape assessment, people observed what they considered “typical”, and stereotyped areas regardless of what actually was representative.
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