BlockAvoca Township
The complete chapter on this township from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909. 114 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avoca (historical) | 6 | - | 1 | - |
| Champlin | 6 | - | 4 | - |
| Lodemia | 2 | 2 | 4 | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
114 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Avoca Township
The village of Ocoya is located on the Alton road. It was laid out by Duff and Cowan of Pontiac in 1869, although a few years before a depot had been erected there and E. M. Babbitt and D. S. Shireman were engaged in the grain business. The town site was purchased in 1871 by Reuben Macey, and be erected a grain elevator. In 1870, Mr. Macey and John McCalla conducted a general store, continuing until 1877, when McCalla moved to Pontiac. Bogie's first addition was laid out in 1870. At the present time, the farmers of that locality own and operate an elevator. There is also a general store and a blacksmith shop.
Provenance
Text from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.