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■■'—I' ii-ii-n muaaig imx ~ miprairie »nd pail limber. Round areas.prairie. a circular area is abouil John Milligan, ol Four Mile, one mile In dlnmetor at I ho-slates be was one of tho party northern edge of this county. who mcl ai Ptnckncyvlllc. In William Hutching*. In 1816.'1828. for Ihe purpo* of culling built on Ihe south aide of the oul the flrat road* from iho newPRAIRIEWOODLANDHutchingr Prairie. HU aon John R. helped locate Pinckncyvllle and later screed ai county (udgo. John Hutchlnga. the Judge’* uncle, built hi* flrat cabin on the north weat quarter of section 1(1 township 4 a. range 2 w.. In 1817 The prairie Border* Bcaucoupcouniy sear.divided InloI0.'?'!the couniy. aucouol The 0,lt;* con,‘ history i Creek Yor‘abou't'tao mliw. HI Cutler precinct. It (• betterThey iparties, opening Ihe road north toward Crand Cote, another toward Six Mile, weal, and illll another lo the caat boundary erfnty.TTte old county history saya ofOld man While did the settlers *no-n »» Loal Prairie.' Conants' smlthwork ai hla shop In Mud BMOiW prairie, are. also Prairie. In 1830. on the edge of wh,n Until! of thU precinct; Washington county. In Tamaroa “nlt;3, |h«*“« ^ge lt;* Uie Lost precinct | Prairie has Its termlnui In thePARADISE PRAIRIE northern part.Paradlae Pralrlo U .o called from an expression elicited By Ha extreme beauty, from the life of Elijah Well*. Looking over it from a high apot he exclaimed to companions, *Thl» la as near Paradlae aa I ever expect to get!”The flrat settlers were David Dial and David Rees. The flrat voting place was In the house “CC Provart. With Its upper and lower arms. Paradise Prairie la the largest In the county, running through Tamaroa and Paradise precincts.John Flack came with his fam-lly. In 1799, and seiilod on Four Mile Prairie. Me found n manThe name. Lost Prarle. grew out of the circumstances of a party of several men gelling lost there on their way from Vincennes to Ksa-kaskla. It was too long ago to learn who the men were or when they mado Ihe trek.EATOITS PRAIRIEAmong the flrat seltlera on that western side of the county was Knock Eaton. 1825. followed by Isaac Eaton who opened a cabinet shop there in 1830. Hence Eatons' Prairie, which. In 1832. became the location of the Baptist Church organized by Peter Hagler at the home of Samuel Ealon.Conants' Prairie Is mentionedPerry «*•*(». baler* rte etlte me* t*me. w*i -el* ,p af a letlei ol praM0* kf Jutlve Swnae. a eatl.a *1 Ov ©»#!» -k* k **- ae Ihe faivlly at So Itelude: I—Gre.d Ce«e. 2—*e.*4 fraMt. I—HvUM-e*. «—Mod Plt;olii*. S-Upp.r Haifa. Ift—J.k.iae'i tea” el Peradl.el. 11—St. MR* Prairie. II—I.. Ik— Lawer Half. Pralrla. 17—Nof the name.We note that “Abner Keith was one erf the first settlers In the arm of Nine Mile Prairie. Now where was -that? Above Nine Mile church the maps show two school districts called Upper Arm and Lower Arm: of whal, Nine MIleTIn another paragraph concerning Cutler precinct we find thenamod Cox living there, who had I frequently and evidently was In Claim Ho. 1410. Survey Ho. 450.1 the same general section, but we where sections 17 and 18 are now can find no record of the sourcefollowing. Dr. Brayshaw. In Nine Mile, near old Du Quoin, administered to the mJdical wants of the earliest settlers In this pie-efnci, as In many othcra. when the couniy was In Ita Infancy.T i would lend to substantiate our contention (hat Nine Mile bgan around Ihe church known by that name and extend-ed i*' -at to the bottomland wuth Of Old Du Quoin. The source of Ihts name ts a mystery; wc wonder nine miles long or nine miles from aomc specific spot?The big book say* Du Quoin precinct Is mostly rolling pralrlc. bounded on the east By Paradise Pralrlc.About 1829. Elijah Wells built' a mill on the west side of NineRotary ClubMeeting In tho dining room of (he SI. Nicholas hotel, a group of 24 Influential Du Quoin men orgonlicd this city's Rotary club on March 31. 1921.Attorney Judson E. Harris*, still a member and now county Judge of Perry county, had been named as local organize* by ihe Male Rotary governor and he asked H. O. Pope to scree as temporary chairman for the first sowlon.W. W. Parks. Harry Sanford and C. V. Kelly wore named on the flrat nominating committee by llarrUs. Upon their recommen-datkms II C. Miller. James Forester. Pope. C- O Reagln. Jake Kaumer, Joe Wcbor and Harry Lancaster were named to the board of directors.The llrst officers were Miller, president; Forester, vlco-prcsl-Mile Pralrlc. on the old Kasksskia *d.toad. Detlntte In those days, but not to us!Thru The Years
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Du Quoin Evening Call
Du Quoin, Illinois, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1953
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