This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Queen of the Mississippi Bridge and Early Illinois Travel
A travel account describes a route from Macon City to Quincy via Peoria and Galesburg, noting Quincy as a bustling river city with its grand bridge completed in 1869, and detailing scenery, towns, farms, and local life including a tobacco factory in Macon, logs and frame houses, schools, and a political climate with Grant and Greenback sentiment. It also observes Institute activities and county education concerns in Marshall County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Guy
Republican
Peoria
Galesburg
Quincy
Springfield
Jacksonville
Mississippi
Quincy Bay
Rver
Green Island
Jenry
Wao
New York City
Grant
Greecy
Ilhinois
Nradford
James Gianpbetl
CS Edwards
Vemnes Garnt
AE Hayden
Hutch Neon
JE Vinrner
Min
Mills
Q Tanquary
McClung
W E Thompson
James Monter
M van Petten
D McVicar
van Pettey
C A Whitney
M. D. Peck
Mattie McClung
Ella Disosway
J . McChong
Anm M Baldwin
Amelia Springer
Walter Reeves
C. A Whitney
Boltwood
Intitute
Lin
Lacan
Lust
Boltwoods
Marshall County