History of Hartsburg, Il.
From: HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS
By: Lawrence B. Stringer
Published by: Pioneer Publishing Company, Chicago 1911
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HARTSBURG. Hartsburg was laid out by David H. Harts, of Lincoln, for whom the town was named in 1871. It was surveyed on
June 22 of that year by Thomas G. Gardner, the Peoria. Lincoln and Decatur, now the Peoria and Evansville branch
of the Ilinois Central railroad, having been completed to that locality about that time. The first store in the
village was erected by E. R. Woland, who rented the same for business purposes to Henry Ruhaak, of Pekin, who also
bought grain for Smith, Hippen & Company, of Pekin. J. E. Miller built the second store, which was conducted
by Miller & Applegate. J. D. Hoyne built the third store and L. Nail the fourth. In 1874, A. W. Ray, of Delavan,
erected an elevator on the site of a small one he had used a year or two previously. P. P. Brady built the first
residence in the village and J. A. Musick the second. In 1876, a commodious school house was erected. A fire in
1874 consumed the store and residence of A. L. Kellogg. A Lutheran church was erected in 1886 and a German Methodist
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