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Download or read book The Early History of Municipal Government in Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by Milton Winfield Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early History of Municipal Government in Illinois Special town charters IN illinois before 1850. Shawneetown is one of the oldest towns of the State,1 and occupies a beautiful situation on the western bank of the Ohio River, nine miles below the mouth of the Wabash River.2 The town derives its name from the Shawnee Indians, who had established a village at this place before the coming of the white.5 Shawneetown owes much of its importance to its location, and there seems to have been a ferry established here about 1800 or Actual settlement took place, however, somewhat later. In 1808 there was not a single house at this point.5 Shortly the question of the location of the town came before Congress and on April 50, 1110, an act was passed, providing, That a tract of land, in the illais Territory, at and including Shawnee Town, on the Ohio River, shall under the direction of the Surveyor General, be laid off in town lots, streets and avenues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.