BlockWalnut Grove Township (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2 of the account of this township in Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921. 230 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Parts
2 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
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The chapter
230 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921. 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.
At first there were two counties in the present Illinois territory - St. Clair on the west, where most of the inhabitants were, and Knox on the east. Later Randolph was organized from the south part of St. Clair. Then came Clark, Edwards, White, Monroe, Crawford and Jackson. There were fifteen counties when the state was admitted in 1818.
The population of the new state was exceedingly mixed, there were few towns of any importance, the roads were paths through the woods, there were practically no schools and almost nothing in the way of public worship. But the climate, the soil, the natural resources, the great waterways, were here. The progress of the people has been commensurate with the development of the state, and it is to commemorate Knox County's part in this wonderful progress of a hundred years that this book is published. The committee of Knox County Board of Supervisors in charge of the publication is: C. H. Pulver, chairman; Milton Deatherage, and Clarence R. Lacy.
In this work, the townships are alphabetically arrang^ed. The following index refers to the more important points of the worli, the numbers indicating the pages on which reference to each item may be found: cf I'opulation, 10-12; Municipalities, 11; Political History, in Congress, 17; in Legislature, 18-21; Railroads, 14-15; Religious growth, lo-14: School Development, 14-15; Statistics of Population, 13; Township officers, 24-27.
Provenance
Text from Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921, 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.