FIRST ROADS

The first road through the township was the Monmouth and Burlington road. This road was traveled before the country was fenced into farms and before any regularly laid out road was surveyed. This old road followed very nearly the old Indian trail, which began in the northeastern part of the township, through the Jameson and Sam Lynn settlements, running southwest to South Henderson ford near Gladstone, and from there southwest along a sand ridge across the bottom to Burlington.

W hen a survey for a county road was made, the surveyors followed the old track from the Sam Lynn place to South Henderson ford; from this place it only followed the old road in the main. James Ryason, Peter Butler and James Jameson were the viewers to South Henderson creek. The first road from the southern part of the township started from Honey creek, leading north through Warren to Gladstone ; this road was extended on to Oquawka, the present county seat.

 

 

History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.

 

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