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Unusual Facts About Carroll County Early Roads and Trails
The Carroll County Historical Society seeks reader stories as it updates its 1678 and 1913 histories in this sesquicentennial year. The piece recounts oddities from the Sucker Trail near Mount Carroll to the Straddle Creek ford and debates over Lewiston Trail routing, including anecdotes about Dagert and Chambers and the 1830 Woodbine Spring survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County Historical Society
Waukarusa
Point Rock Park
Mount Carroll
Bob Upton
Savanna
Carroll County
Shannon
Lima
Elkhorn Grove
Adam Daggert
Salem Township
Altho
Daggert
Polsgrove
Dixon Land Office
Arnolds Grove
New Township
Mount Carroll-Lanark
Woodbine Spring
O’gee
Dixon’s) Ferry
Lanark
On Straddle Creek
Derrida
Rush
Brush Creek
John Ankeny
Isaac Chambers
Lima Township
Chambers
Woodbine Springs
Abraham Lincoln
Galena
Lewiston
Elizabeth
Fulton County
Peora
Althoit
Alton
Beardstown
Rushville
County Commissioners Court
Jo Davies County
Oulialo Grove
Lewiston Road
Crane
Hulliard
New Boston
Mississippi
Hennepin
Illinois River
Ogie and Lee
Ogle and
Lee
Rock River
Prophetstown
Crane’s Grove
Georgetown
Carroll) Creek
Plum River
Woodbine Spring Road