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DIRECTORY,
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES
OF THE
CITY of SHAWNEETOWN
1872.
WITH A. BRIEF REFERENCE TO THE
RESOURCES OF GALLATIN COUNTY.
SHAWNEETOWN: PUBLISHED BY D. W. LUSK, MERCURY OFFICE, .FOR GLASS & CO. 1872.
Shawnee House,
JONES & NORTON, Proprietors,
SHAWNEETOWN, . ILLINOIS.
We have in connection with the House a fine
LIVERY STABLE,
and are prepared to furnish at all times good BUGGIES and CARRIAGES.
DR.J.W.REDDEN,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
DRUGS
-AND-
MEDICINES,
PAINTS,
Window-Glass,
OILS,
Putty,
VARNISHES,
-AND-
CARDEN SEEDS,
-
Main Street, -
SHAWNEETOWN,
ILLINOIS.
G. W. GORDON.
R. A. STERLING.
J. S. GREER.
Gordon, Sterling & Greer,
Marble Yard,
SHAWNEETOWN, ILLINOIS.
They have constantly on hand one of the largest and best selected stocks of
ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE
west of Cincinnati, and are prepared to furnish Monuments and Tombstones in the best style. and with despatch. They employ none but the most experienced workmen, and use only the best material.
HI. O. DOCKER.
J. M. PEEPLES. 1
DOCKER & PEEPLES
DEALERS IN .
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
MATTRESSES and CARPETS
FURNITURE A SPECIALTY.
SHAWNEETOWN, ILLINOIS.
JOS. P. HULL, Carriage-Maker AND REPAIRER,
1. NORTH STREET, BET. MAIN AND MARKET, 1
One Door West of' 'Peeples & Ridgway's Tobacco Warehouse,
SHAWNEETOWN,
ILLINOIS.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
JAMES LITSEY
City Butcher,
MAIN STREET,
SHAWNEETOWN,
ILLINOIS.
Meat market every morning, Sundays excepted.
J. B. TURNER,
Attorney at Law
And Solicitor in Chancery.
Will practice his profession especially in Southern Illinois, and in the Supreme and District Courts of this State; and will also give prompt attention to Collections, to matters of Real Estate, and to the adjustment of Estates.
·
F. JJ. OAKES.
J. T. FISHER.
E. R. LODWICK.
CRAWFORD
OUSE
OAKES & CO., Proprietors,
Corner Sixth and Walnut Streets,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
W. G. BOWMAN.
J. N. WASSON.
BOWMAN &
ASSON
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.
Will give prompt attention to any business entrusted to their care. Special attention given to Collections and Real Estate business.
SILAS RHOADES,
Attorney at Law
And Real Estate and Collecting Agent,
OFFICE ON MAIN CROSS STREET,
SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.
The Elercury
JOB PRINTING in the Finest Style, and at owest Rates. 1
$2.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
SHAWNEETOWN
DIRECTORY,
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES,
OF THE
CITY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
1872.
.
WITH A BRIEF REFERENCE TO THE
RESOURCES OF GALLATIN COUNTY.
SHAWNEETOWN: PUBLISHED BY D. W. LUSK, MERCURY OFFICE. FOR GLASS AND CO. 1872.
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DEDICATION.
THOS. S. RIDGWAY. ESQ .. C'ashier First National Bank. Shawneetown, Illinois.
SIR :
Appreciating your sterling worth as a gentleman; your wishes and efforts to advance the best interests of our city. not only materially, but morally. religionsly, and intellectually ; I have taken the liberty of dedicating to you chis, the first. BUSINESS DIRECTORY of our beautiful and growing city.
I have the honor to be. Very respectfully, yours. D. W. LUSK. EDITOR.
SIUC SCRC 1869
PREFACE.
Believing that the use of printers' ink is the best means by which the resources and advantages of a city or community may be brought to the attention of the public, we undertook the pub- lication of a Directory for the City of Shawneetown. And in doing so we have endeavored to confine ourselves to facts. If we have erred as to the resources of the City or of the country tributary to it, it has been in not stating more fully their mag- nitude.
The business interests represented in this Directory are such as will commend themselves to the favorable consideration of all who may have dealings with the parties. And we close this brief introduction by humbly thanking our friends and patrons for their liberal co-operation, hoping that our efforts may meet with their hearty approval.
SHAWNEETOWN.
The City of Shawneetown is situated on the Ohio River, one hundred and twenty miles above its confluence with the Mississippi and nine miles below the mouth of the Wabash River. It has a population of two thousand ; is beautifully located ; has pleasant society, good schools, and several churches. It is one of the oldest towns in the State; and, although sur- rounded by a rich country, it has not kept pace with other towns less favorably situated, owing to the fact that the site on which it stands is subject to inundations from the overflow of the Ohio River. But this great impediment to its growth and prosperity will soon be removed. A levee of sufficient dimensions to pro- tect the City from all overflow has been contracted for with responsible parties, and will be completed by the 1st of Sep- tember, 1872. New life and energy have now taken possession of the people, and Shawneetown promises to become what it should have been years ago-a great and powerful commercial and manufacturing point.
SHIPPING INTEREST.
As a shipping point, it is the best between Louisville and Cairo. A large agricultural region finds an outlet through this City. We have open navigation the year round to New Orleans.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
Gallatin national Bank,
OF
SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.
PAID-UP CAPITAL, $250,000.
OFFICERS. MARSHALL M. POOL, President. R. W. TOWNSHEND, Vice-President. FRANCIS C. CRAWFORD, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN D. RICHESON. H. B. POWELL.
M. M. POOL, R. W. TOWNSHEND,
,
W. B. HENSHAW. JEREMIAH TAYLOR. F. C. CRAWFORD.
TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Money loaned on reasonable terms. Especial facilities offered to regular cus- tomers, depositors, and shippers.
Especial attention given to collections on all points throughout the country. and remittances promptly made.
Interest allowed on time deposits. Government securities, coin, and exchange bought and sold.
Exchange furnished on all the principal eities of the United States and Europe. We solicit your business, assuring you satisfactory attention to your interests.
Banking House in Pool's Block, Main Street.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
CAPITAL ..
The aggregate wealth of this city is not less than three millions of dollars. We have two national banks with a capital stock of $500.000, with facilities to accommodate the commercial wants of the City and surrounding country.
RAILROADS.
We have two railroads, the Springfield and Illinois South- eastern, and the St. Louis and Southeastern, the former extend- ing from Shawneetown to Beardstown on the Illinois River, a distance of two hundred and twenty-six miles, passing through Springfield. the Capital of the State, and the only road in the southern portion of the State which leads directly to the Capital. It connects at Enfield with the Evansville Division of the St. Louis and Southeastern Railway ; at Flora, with the Ohio and Mississippi Railway ; at Edgewood, with the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central ; and at Altamont, with the St. Louis, Van- dalia and Indianapolis Railroad-thus affording rapid and com- plete connections with the most important railroads in the State. The St. Louis and Southeastern Railway extends from Shawneetown to St. Louis, a distance of one hundred and forty miles, which forms the most direct and cheapest route to that city. It crosses the Illinois Central at Ashley.
On the Kentucky side of the river, a road is building, known . as the Shawneetown and Madisonville Straight Line Railroad, which forms a junction at Madisonville with the Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad. This road is under the management of the St. Louis and Southeastern Railway Com- pany, and is a part and branch of that railway, and forms the most direct route between St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn., two hundred and eighty-four miles. Thus it will be seen that, by means of our rivers and railroads, we have a perfect chain of communication with all parts of the country, and that our pro- duets are open to the markets of the world.
MANUFACTURING FACILITIES. ·
There is no city in the State better adapted for manufactur- ing purposes. We cannot, in the short space allotted here, give a detailed account of our facilities for manufacturing. Gallatin County contains immense forests of the most valuable timber ; oak, walnut, hickory, ash, eypress. and, in short, almost every species known to the catalogue of timbers. 2
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
J. MCKEE PEEPLES, President. THOS. S. RIDGWAY, Cashier. W. D. PHILE. Assistant Cashier.
First National Bank
OF
SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.
Organized 1865.
PAID-UP CAPITAL, $200,000.
SURPLUS FUND, $50,000.
DIRECTORS.
J. McKEE PEEPLES. THOS. S. RIDGWAY.
GEO. A. RIDGWAY, A. K. LOWE.
H. O. DOCKER.
This Bank, now in the seventh year of its existence. respectfully tenders its services and facilities to the public.
Money loaned on the most favorable terms. Especial facilities afforded to regular customers, depositors, and shippers.
Interest allowed on time deposits.
Gold Interest on registered and coupon bonds collected on liberal terms. Government securities, coin, and exchange bought and sold. Exchange furnished on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe.
Collections made throughout the country at reasonable rates.
Liberal inducements offered to depositors, and dne attention given to their accommodation.
Banking House, Old State Bank Building.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
CO.IL.
We can state that we have all the varieties of coal known in Illinois, and here is to be found the thickest part of the western coal measures in the State. There are eleven beds of coal. seven of which can be worked profitably. and give an aggregate of thirty feet in thickness of coal. The upper bed. known to geologists as No. 11. is four feet thick. of good quality for blacksmith work. and identical with the "Big Muddy" and the Pittsburg coal of Pennsylvania. Bed No. 10 is three feet thick. but is not opened in this vicinity : it is frequently merged into No. 11. with a shale of slate parting. which accounts for the extra thickness of that bed at various places. as, for instance, at "Big Muddy." The five-foot bed or No. 9, is the most extensively worked. and for general purposes the most valuable coal in the series. It is a hard. black. bright, free-burning. bituminous coal, and is superior to any other for the generation of steam, making but little ashes or clinker. Beds No. 6 and No. 5 are, respectively. three and four feet thick. The analysis of No. 2 closely resembles the Worsboro (England) furnace coal. which ranks high for iron smelting. The reports and analysis published by those eminent geologists, J. G. Nor- wood. D. D. Owen. L. Lesquereux, and E. Cox, speak in the highest terms of the quality of several of the coals. as well as the immense quantity found in this region. Professor Owen says :. it would be difficult to find so many workable beds of coal concentrated in so limited a space as in this part of the middle coal field, five beds making their outcrop from the summit of the blutt to low water, and three or four more beds can be worked in a mile space."
The beds now opened and mined have an aggregate thick- ness of nineteen feet, and an aggregate capacity of fifty thousand bushels per day. Three companies, each with a large capital, are organized. known as the Equality Coal Company, which has a coal-tip at this point, on the St. Louis and South- eastern Railroad : the Bowlesville Mining and Manufacturing Company. having a coal-tip on the Ohio River, one mile below this place ; and the Independence Coal Company, which has a coal-tip on Saline River, near its confluence with the Ohio.
Iron and coal are found nearer together at this point than at any other place west of Pennsylvania.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
ALEX. H. ROWAN,
Attorney and Counselor AT LAW,
Real Estate and Collecting Agent.
Has ready access to a reliable Abstract of all the Real Estate in Gallatin County.
WILL FURNISH ABSTRACTS OF TITLE TO LANDS, PAY TAXES FOR NON-RESIDENTS,
And attend promptly to all business intrusted to him.
MAIN STREET, Three Doors Below First National Bank, (UP-STAIRS.) P. O. BOX 87.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
SALT.
The salt wells of Saline River are yielding about twenty thousand barrels of salt per year, but the capital of the company has recently been greatly enlarged, and it is their purpose to increase the capacity of the wells to five hundred barrels per day. or one hundred and fifty thousand barrels per year.
The field for manufactures is but little occupied, and we dare say that there is no city in all the Great West that offers so many inducements as ours. We have the raw material at the very door of the manufacturer. and labor is cheap and abundant.
PRODUCING POWER.
We are surrounded by as fine an agricultural district as can be found in the United States.
WHEAT.
No better wheat is grown in the country than in Gallatin County.
FLOUR.
The large number of mills in the County afford a good market for wheat. and show this branch of industry to be very profitable.
CORN.
The adaptability of the soil for producing corn is well estab- lished, as the numerous steamboats that are loaded at our wharf from time to time each season attest. The competition among buyers is always sufficiently great to command a remunerative price for this product.
OATS, BARLEY, RYE, AND GRASS Are extensively grown, with satisfactory results.
FRUIT.
In the growing of fruits we claim superior advantages over other portions of the State. The peach, apple, grape and strawberry crops seldom, if ever, fail, and ripen from three to five weeks earlier than in the northern or middle portions of the State, and can be produced with great profit.
STOCK.
This is a fine stock region. As fine cattle as ever found place in a butcher's stall are raised in this County at compara- tively little cost.
HOGS.
We have in this city a large steam pork-packing establish- ment, capable of packing one thousand hogs per day, which
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tis & Southeastern
RAILWAY.
"The Red Line." - -
The QUICKEST
-AND-
67 Miles the Shortest Route
-FROM-
ST. LOUIS TO NASHVILLE, TENN.
-
DISTANCES.
Shawneetown to St. Louis.
140 miles.
Shawneetown to Evansville. 90 miles.
Shawneetown to Chicago, 340 miles.
Shawneetown to Cairo, ·
175 miles.
Shawneetown to Cincinnati.
133 miles.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
affords sale for all the hogs for miles around. at advantageous figures.
In briefly referring to our advantages as a city and a county. we have endeavored to show that we have all the elements to invite the attention of the mechanic. the merchant. the farmer. and, indeed. all classes of industry, and to impress them with the idea that we really want to increase our population by legitimate means. We are satisfied that we have all we claim for our section. and we respectfully invite the attention of per- sons seeking new homes in the West to our superior advantages, promising to give them all the information they may desire concerning us.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
[ST. LOUIS AND SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY-Continued.]
IT IS THE
BEST ROAD,
AND HAS THE
Best Connections, The Best Cars, AND THE
FASTEST TIME TO ANY PLACE
West, North, or East GOING FROM SHAWNEETOWN.
Travelers and Shippers on the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland Rivers will find this
AIR-LINE ROAD FROM SHAWNEETOWN TO ST. LOUIS
Superior to any other in time and comfort. The passenger-coaches are all new and elegantly fitted up, with every safeguard against accidents.
Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars
Will be attached to all night trains.
GENERAL OFFICE 206 South Fourth Street, St. Louis, Mo.
SHAWNEETOWN OFFICE "Red Depot," on River Front.
EVANSVILLE OFFICE "Red Depot," on River Front.
J. F. BOYD, Superintendent, St. Louis.
SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS.
Southeastern Illinois, of which Gallatin County forms an important part. is now attracting more attention than at any time since the formation of the State. But recently a corre- spondent of the Chicago Evening Post made a tour through some of the southeastern counties, and on his return home gave a very faithful picture of our condition and resources. In trans- ferring the article to its columns, the Illinois State Register says :
"We avail ourselves of an excellent and plain, unvarnished statement of the undeveloped resources and present growing prospects of this great State, which has hitherto been neglected. which we copy from the Chicago Post. Glowing as this extract is. it does not tell half the capacities of a portion of the State which could support in affluence millions of population. Southeastern Illinois has labored under great disadvantages. Early in the settlement of the State. before railroads were devised. the immigration was chiefly confined to its southern portion. Its settlers were poor in purse, proud in spirit. excelling in hos- pitality, adventurous, brave, enduring, and industrious. Settle- ments were made on the Ohio and that part of the Mississippi River bordering on the then principal city of the West, St. Louis. Gradually the tide of immigration passed around by the lakes, or through the upper tier of counties of Central Illinois. In general. these settlers had more money than their neighbors in the south, and had to contend with fewer obstructions. Their country was prairie, ready for the plow, and although objections were made to 'so much untimbered land,' farms were
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
BECHTOLD & WEBER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
GROCERIES, WINES,
LIQUORS, PRODUCE,
ALE and LAGER BEER. -
Bakers and Confectioners.
EAST MAIN STREET, SHAWNEETOWN, ILLINOIS.
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more easily opened. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the advantages or disadvantages of either section. Our object is to show that the resources, mineral wealth and agricultural prospects of Southeastern Illinois, are superior to any equal quantity of acres anywhere on the green earth; that in fertil- ity of soil, of mineral products. in affluent forests, in salubrity in climate, and in general healthfulness. Southeastern and Southern Illinois is scarcely equaled, and certainly not excelled by any other land.
"We do this to invite the attention of our adventurous youth from the Eastern and Northern States, who seek homes in the far West, to stop and examine for themselves. Let them see if there is any possibility to find equally commodious, cheap, healthy, and happy homes elsewhere. We do this on the prin- ciple adopted by intelligent advertisers, asking people to exam- ine goods before purchasing anywhere; and we venture to remark that settlers will, after having examined the country to which attention is drawn, admit that no one need go farther westward for a home.
"There is no finer fruit-growing country in the world than Southeastern Illinois. The corn lands are unsurpassed in fertility. Wheat in almost every section yields abundantly. All the cereals grow luxuriantly. The grape culture is being introduced with success. Indeed, nothing has been needed but that which is now being supplied-railroads. A statement of these and the products of Southeastern Illinois would only be a recapitulation of those made in the Post's correspondence, and to it we refer the reader."
Here is the concluding portion of the article referred to by the Register :
"In the short space of a few months an area of some four thousand square miles has advanced a long step on the way to complete occupation and settlement. It is true that parts of it have long been known as among the oldest places in the State, but their early occupation was in consequence of proximity to the river, and therefore the settlements were very limited in extent, and have been almost at a standstill for years. The progress that is making now is real, and therefore very gratify- ing. The towns that are building have no superficial reasons for undue expansion, and hence may be expected to advance in the same or a greater ratio for the future. Churches and schools are building, and the evidences of cultivation and morality are numerous and encouraging. These features are gratifying to the many immigrants who feel that no more powerful considera- tions than these could move them in the selection of a home.
"In many of the towns, and some of the counties, the sale of intoxicating liquors has been entirely prohibited for several years. The beneficial effects of this system have been so appar- ent that public sentiment is now found strongly in favor of per-
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EQUALITY
Coal Company
CAPITAL STOCK, $500,000.
This Company is prepared to deliver, in boats or barges, at Shawneetown, at the Ohio River terminus of the St. Louis and Southeastern Railway.
SIX THOUSAND BUSHELS DAILY
OF THE EQUALITY COAL.
This Company also manufactures the well and favorably known
"SOUTH ILLINOIS SALT,"
Which they can deliver at any point on the Ohio River, or on the St. Louis and Southeastern Railway, or the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern Railway.
B. TEMPLE,
Superintendent.
Equality, Gallatin County, Illinois.
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
manent temperance regulations, and it is not at all probable that the restrictions will ever be removed. unless the resident popu- lation should be outvoted by new-comers of less steady habits.
"The resources of nature are varied and invaluable. and the class of people coming in is of the very best. It requires but a very brief consideration of the manifest advantages of this section as compared with the extreme West to decide new- comers where they should go. Its climate is genial and pleas- ant, and not unpleasantly warm even for people from the north- ern States of the East. And then it lies between the great markets of Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati. and Louisville, with ready access to and choice of each. In addition to all these. the soil is capable of a variety of culture wholly unknown in latitudes further north.
"Fruit-growing has made Southeastern Ilinois famous, and the counties I have treated of are peculiarly fitted for its culture. Peaches, pears. apples, grapes, plums, and all the varieties of smaller fruits, can be cultivated in abundance. The new outlets to the great markets that have been opened, and the increasing net-work of roads projected through them, will vastly enlarge the traffic. There is no class of culture that will return any such average of profit for the outlay of labor and capital, and it is not too much to expect that in a few years, at most, the thousands of acres of now unoccupied lands, so finely adapted for the purpose. will be eagerly sought after. The ridiculously low prices asked for these lands at present are no criterion of what they will be worth in a few years hence. for it cannot cer- tainly be long until their manifest advantages in location and character will draw thousands of industrious seekers after homes to them. Such an influx would very soon make heavy differences in price.
"Before closing I cannot forbear referring to the wide range of business openings that present themselves to the industrious in this part of the State. Besides its richness in agricultural resources, the land is, in many parts, covered with most valuable timber, which is particularly desirable on account of its prox- imity to the prairies and the consequent certainty of a market. . But in all branches of trade, in the mechanical industries, and, in fact, in numberless ways, the country has yet to be filled up. Young men who are seeking a home should remember that right here in Illinois, under the blessings of good government and light taxation, in the model commonwealth of the Union, they can procure homes at almost a nominal price, and find profitable occupation in almost any of the industries of life. The climate is most genial and healthy; the openings to market are now nearly complete ; and before encountering the difficulties of the Far West they should look at the brighter pictures nearer home."
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DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN.
Springfield Illinois
Southeastern
RAILWAY
From SHAWNEETOWN, on the Ohio River, passing through Springfield, the State Capital, to BEARDSTOWN, on the Illinois River, a distance of 226 Miles, and there connecting with the Rock Island Railroad; thus giving the
Most Direct Line of Railway
FROM THE
SOUTHEAST TO THE NORTHWEST
Across the State of Illinois.
See Page 24.
DIRECTORY OF SHAWNEETOWN. 1872.
ABBREVIATIONS.
ab.
. above
n W cor. .north west corner
av.
avenue
n W s.
. north west side
bds.
. boards
res. .residence bet . between
cor.
.corner
s ...
sonth or
e ...
.east, or east of
e s.
s e cor .south east eornef
east side
ses. south east side
north of
n ..
ss. . south side
north east corner n e cor
s W col. .south west corner
nes
.north east side
SWS. south west side
nr .. .
... near
W ... . west. or west of
n s.
north side
W S .west side
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES.
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Adams Express Company ; Howell. Millspaugh & Co., agents, Water street
Aldridge, F. M., physician ; res w s Market, bet Main Cross and 1st North streets
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