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Elkhart Historical Soc survey
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Movie Horse Trainer
The Columbine Trio Lin CH
Restoration Lin Mammoth
Discovery Racoons
in IL Ash Borer
The Hillbilly Celts
Underground Railroad
Route 66
Mary Todd Lincoln
Edwards Trace
Lincoln:
The Man, The Myth, The Legend |
 
Annual Elkhart Hill Spring Bluebell Tour |
Annual Xmas in the Elkhart Chapel
Brian "Fox" Ellis
Marl McDonald
of IL Stories
PAUL J. BEAVER, Professor
Emeritus: William Scully,
Developing & Farming the Illinois
Prairie After the Civil War |
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https://www.logancoil-genhist.org/LogCoSpots/EdwardsTrace/Trace.htm
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The Real Estate Empire of the John Dean Gillett Family
of Elkhart, Illinois;
the Gillett Great Estate Trial of
1904 at Lincoln, Illinois; and Gillett History to the
Present
A Collaborative, Pictorial History Book, Featuring
Images of Selected, Rare Sources
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John D. Gillett,
whom the London Gazette dubbed
The
Cattle King of the World.
Gillett and his grandson Hiram Keays won
numerous awards at the Chicago livestock
show. For many years in the late 1800's
the town of Elkhart was one of the largest
shipping points on the C&A (Chicago &
Alton) Railroad, due to the large stock
raising farms of John Dean Gillett.
Noted for importing Durham cattle from Scotland and developing the Shorthorn cattle breed, Gillett
shipped over 2,000 head of cattle and 1,000 head of hogs to Europe annually.
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Renovation of Veteran Park
Donations to the Veterans
Park Fund
are tax deductible & can
be sent to
PO Box 20, Elkhart, IL
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Current &
Past Events
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Exploring Tourism in Logan County Web site:
www.explorelogancounty.com
[note: the
autumn photo of the Elkhart Gillett-Cemetery
Bridge
was submitted by
Elkhart photographer,
Joshua Rhoades]
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