BALD BLUFF
Bald Bluff precinct stretches across the entire north end of Henderson county. In its narrowest width it is scarcely three and one-half miles. Its greatest breadth is a little more than four and one-half miles. The greatest length is nine miles.
It is made up of section 12, range 4, and section 12, range 5, the latter comprising about one-third of its territory. It is bounded on the north by Mercer county, and on the east by Warren ; on the south by Greenville and Oquawka precincts, and on the west by the Mississippi river. Its area is over thirty-four sections, or about 22,000 acres of land.
This tract was nearly all military land. The precinct is one of the last settled in the county.
History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.
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