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Given by Eugene Edge III.
Author : Louise Frederick Hays
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Macon County (Ga.)
ISBN : 9780806347769
Given by Eugene Edge III.
Author : Dan Guillory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 143963324X
Macon County occupies nearly 600 square miles of fertile farmland in the geographic center of Illinois. Abraham Lincoln made his first Illinois home here, on a pleasant bluff overlooking the Sangamon River, near presentday Harristown. On May 10, 1860, he was first nominated for the presidency in Decatur, the county seat. During the World War I era, Macon County boasted over a dozen hamlets and villages, including Warrensburg and Maroa, which both enjoyed opera houses and busy train stations. Maroa was home to John Crocker, who became a famous banker, while nearby Forsyth produced Black Bart, the infamous bank robber. After World War II, Decatur became known as the soybean capital of the world. And today, agricultural and industrial workers depend on one another, growing and processing the corn and soybeans that have made Macon County a self-sustaining economic engine.
Author : John W. Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
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ISBN : 3385508770
Author : John W. Smith
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Macon County (Ill.)
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Author : Edgar White
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Macon County (Mo.)
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Macon County (Ill.)
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Author : Eugene Frizzelle Goldston
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Clarence Lounsbury
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Soil surveys
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Henry J. Ferguson
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Soil surveys
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