BlockEast Bend Township
The complete chapter on this township from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891. 180 words, covering 2 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
2 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.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
180 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891. 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.
East Bend Township
Derives its name from the bend in the Sangamon river, which extends further east in this township than at any other point It and Brown township once had the name of Sodom, which was the name of the first postoffice. Thompson Dickson, t. M.
First Settlers : Franklin Dobson and Lot King in ISST : Nicholas Devore in 1S41, his sons. A. J. Devore and John Devore. still live in san^; Harvey Taylor. 1S45: Gardner Sweet, 1S4S: J. L. Cosner (still there). Thompson Dickson and Harmon Hilberry. 1S52: Ben Dolph and Richard Chism. 1S.54; Xoble Byers, John Stansberry and Isaiah Ferris, 1S56: Alfred Houston, Joshua Peckham. Phillip Hummel. Charles Knapp and John Hamit. 1S58.
The H., R & E. R. R. runs through the south part. The principal station is Dewey, about 100 inhabitants, mostly German. In the town are three stores, besides dne large implement warehouse, one blacksmith shop, one church, German Lutheran, school house. mill, and an extensive business is done in grain and produce. The principal operators are E. C Sale. John Heineman and J. H. Linebarger.
Provenance
Text from Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891, 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.