HILLSDALE VILLAGE
Is in Canoe Creek Township and is not incorporated. It is a small village but has good school facilities, general stores, blacksmith shop and two hotels. The first post-office was established in 1842 or 1843, with Moses Hubbard as postmaster. The second postoffice was called Hill's Crossing. At this crossing a station was established by the Sterling & Rock Island Railroad, now the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the village was laid out in 1868 by Richard Hill and named Hillsdale. It is the shipping point for a part of Canoe Creek and Zuma Townships
BANK
Farmers ct Merchants Bank, Hillsdale
(Private)
Capital ....................................... $ 10,000.00
Surplus and profits ........................ 19.000.00
Deposits ..................................... 192,000.00
Loans 161,000.00E. L. Hanson, president ; R C. Palmer, assistant cashier
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