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Montgomery County Illinois History
Submitted by: Jeffrey Dunn on: January 28, 2011 | Article rating: 
Taken from: “Hillsboro A History” by Dorothy Bliss
Published: 1989
Based on the writings of the late Tom Bliss.
In 1869, the Montgomery County Loan & Trust Company, now Montgomery County National Bank, was capitalize...
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Submitted by: Ann Stoddard on: December 27, 2010 | Article rating:
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Timber Rat Society
From Waggoner Vignettes by Horace Q Waggoner, Jr. (1986)
Bert Aikman, a long-time farmer in Township 11-5 (Pitman Township), in his oral history memoir, applied the title “timber rats” to t...
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Submitted by: Jim May on: October 13, 2010 | Article rating: 
Exerpt from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County Volume II:
A BUTLER GHOST
During the summer of 1916 Perry Williamson while working for a neighbor, a quarter of a mile away, saw what he suppo...
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Submitted by: Jeffrey Dunn on: April 09, 2010 | Article rating:
The Kortkamp Brick and Tile Company began business some time ago, but, owing to the large cost of installing some electrical machinery and other financial complications, the plant, though having a capacity of 40,000 brick per...
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Submitted by: Jeffrey Dunn on: April 09, 2010 | Article rating:
Some years ago J. J. Frey, associated with a dozen or more Hillsboro capitalists, erected and put into operation an electric light and power company. This plant has been in many respects a model enterprise of the kind. The sp...
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