Westport, Illinois

Centerville is a little hamlet at the adjoining corners of sections 23, 24, 25 and 26, T. 4, R. 11. Allison postoffice was established here, about ten years ago. A half mile west of the village is the site of the old Center school-house described in the pioneer chapter. The voting place of the township is at Westport opposite Vin- the north by Richland county, on the east by Wabash, on the south by Mt. Carmel, and on the west by Lick prairie and Lancaster. Its boundary line is described as follows : Beginning at the northeast corner of the east half of section 32, twp. 2 north, range 12 W., and extending west along the section line to the northwest corner of the east half of section 35, range 13 W.; thence south along the half-section line to the southwest corner of the east half of section 11, twp. 1 north/range 13 west; thence west to the northwest corner of section 15, same town and range; thence south along the section line to the southwest corner of section 34, same town and range ; thence west to the southeast corner of section 32 ; thence north to the place of beginning.

Passage source: Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1883.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

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