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  • The Founding of Fairbury, Illinois

  • By: Dale C. Maley
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

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The Founding of Fairbury, Illinois

By: Dale C. Maley
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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This book traces the founding of the Fairbury area including the first pioneer farmers. The book includes maps of the Fairbury area indicating where the first farmers purchased land along Indian Creek or the Vermilion River. In 1850, Congress passed a new law authorizing land patents for military veterans. Most of these veterans did not want to move to the swampy Fairbury area, so they sold their patents to farmers interested in trying to farm the swampy soil. This triggered a second wave of pioneer settlers in the middle 1850s. In 1851, the State of Illinois passed a new law authorizing the Peoria & Oquawka Railroad to run new tracks from Peoria to Indiana. This set off a competition between Fairbury farmers to see if they could get the new railroad tracks laid through their farms. A great deal of money could be made if their farmland was converted into residential home building lots in a new town on the railroad. It is hoped this book will help people better understand how our swampy prairie land was converted into some of the most valuable farmland on the planet. This book also more fully explains how the village of Fairbury was founded in 1857.
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  • Categories: History

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