Caroline Mark House

This certificate was returned to the County Commissioners' Court and ordered to be spread upon the record, and is to be seen on the Oth page ot within the territory of the county there were only three precmcts or voting places - Savanna, Plum River and Elkhorn Grove. Only two places for the county seat were voted for - Savanna, and Section 9 jn townshii) 24: north, range 5 east, about three miles to_ the southeast ot Mount Carroll. The vote in the three precincts was as follows:

Passage source: The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878.

A third addition of 40 by 100 feet at the northeast corner of the buildings already erected, was commenced in 1S65 and completed in 1867. It has four stories and a fifteen-room attic - adding, all told, seventy-one rooms, and increasing the other conveniences in like proportion, and costing about $30,000. As in the construction of the other additions, so in this one. Miss Wood superintended the building from its commencement to its completion. She contracted for the lumber with Minnesota Mills, and had it delivered in strings of rafts at Savanna. There she contracted with planing mills to receive it, reduce it to proper dimensions for particular purposes, to dress it and deliver it on the cars, having also contracted with the railroad authorities to deliver'it from Savanna at the Mount Carroll depot. In this way she maintains that she saved fully, if not more than half in the cost of the lumber as compared with the price asked by dealers here. Lime, glass, paint, paper, etc., were bought the same way. The stone used was taken from her own quarries by men hired by the day.

Passage source: The History of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County-its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory ... War Record ... Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... History of the Northwest ... Illinois ... Miscellaneous Matters, Etc, published 1878.

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