|
NAVIGATION
LaSalle
County
Histories
Illinois
Histories
Michigan
Histories
New York
Histories
History at
Rays Place
Also see [ Railway Officials in America 1906
] NEW
Rays
Place
|
Next south of Ross is the Town of Edgar, with an area of 23,040 acres (36 sections), mostly prairie of first
quality. This town was well settled long ago by the McKees, Hoults, Hartleys, Sayres, Baileys, Stage, Williams.
Winn, Mitchell, Tuckers, Larkin, Calvins, et al. It is situated on both sides of the highway laid out in 1823,
leading from “Old Vincennes” to Chicago. In the ‘40’s Bloomfield, a village on this road east of the present village
of Edgar on the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railway, was quite an important trading point, and the quantity
of merchandise sold there was equal to that sold in Paris. The railroad built from Danville to Cairo missed Bloomfield
a mile or more, and the village began at once to collapse, and now, cornfields and meadows are seen instead of
stores, shops and dwellings of the days when it rivaled Paris in busy wealth.
Toww OFFICERS.—Charles W. Seybold, Supervisor; C. C. N. Perry, Town Clerk; Luther Fulton, Assessor; Thomas J. Evans,
Collector; M. D. Bush, H. W. Brown, Justices of the Peace; John Church, Cassius Baker, Constables; John Ashley,
Rufus Milam, John Glithers, Commissioners of Highways.
FROM:
Encyclopedia of Illinois
and the History of Edgar County
Edited by: H. Van Sellar.
Munsell Publishing Company
Chicago 1905
|
|