BlockStevenson Township
The complete chapter on this township from Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, published 1909. 166 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bannister | 2 | - | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
166 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, 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.
Stevenson Township
by I). \V. Murfin in 1872. The first building was a large hay barn, built by T. K. Dickey in 1872. The next year Murry & Harris opened a general store. Later three or four other stores were opened and all are still doing business. A good schoolhouse has been erected and also a Methodist church. A neat station-house was erected in 1880, before that time an old box car served as station. Vernon long enjoyed the distinction of being the home of the oldest man in the county, Uncle Frank Binion, who died in 1907, aged one hundred and seven years. Vernon is the home of more veterans of the Civil war than any community of like size, known to us, and its quiet companionship of comrades who are only awaiting the call to come up higher is blessed with old ties and remembrances of the long ago, but the waiting will soon be over, for the Grand Army is passing with the vanishing years.
Provenance
Text from Brinkerhoff's History of Marion County, Illinois, 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.