BlockMagnolia Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Putnam County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1876, published 1877. 203 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia (historical) | - | - | 7 | - |
| Magnolia | 3 | 17 | 6 | - |
| McNabb | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 3 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
203 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Putnam County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1876, published 1877. 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.
Magnolia Township
Magnolia, called after the well known tree of that name, was explored as early as 1826, bv William Haws, James W. Willis and Stephen D. Willis, who made claims in that locality. It was at the house of Mr. Haws that the Commissioners met to locate the county seat of Putnam county. John Knox and Aaron Payne were the earliest settlers, the former locating at Magnolia in 1827, making that place tiie' first settled in the present Putnam county. The rich rolling fa^rming lands were soon taken apt and the population of village and country around rapidly increased. Schools and Churclies were founded. In 1859 the village was incorporated. Population in 1875, 1607.
Union Grove
Unicjn Grove possesse»l rare attractions to the seeker of a western home. An outlook over green swells and gentle depressions, more beautiful tlian the prairie's dead level, shaded by charming natural groves of oak, bounded by thick timber on the west and the boundless grassy plain on the east, could not fail to win recognition as a spot of rare promise.
Stephen D. W^illis and Thomas Gallaher were its first settlers and here the first church in tliis region wjis formed which became the religious center of the surrounding settlement.
Provenance
Text from History of Putnam County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1876, published 1877, 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.