. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . 000 to the capital stock of the Paris & Danville railroad,the vote was, for, 221; against, 195 ; which was a very close vote, consid-ering the conditions with which the proposition was hemmed a1 iiit:No part of suchbonds shall, issue, nor bear interest, until the road iscompleted. The road to run within a half a mile of the public squareof Georgetown, and
. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . 000 to the capital stock of the Paris & Danville railroad,the vote was, for, 221; against, 195 ; which was a very close vote, consid-ering the conditions with which the proposition was hemmed a1 iiit:No part of suchbonds shall, issue, nor bear interest, until the road iscompleted. The road to run within a half a mile of the public squareof Georgetown, and be completed within three years from September 1,1869. The bonds were signed and put into hands of Elam Hendersonas trustee, under a bond from him in the penal sum of $40,000, condi-tioned that he should not date or deliver them until these conditionswere complied with. A resolution was also adopted directing thesupervisor to sell the stock as soon as it should come into his hands, tothe railroad company, for $10. GEORGETOWN VILLAGE. Georgetown village, or rather, as it was then called, the town ofGeorgetown, was laid out in the spring of 1827, two months after Dan-ville was. The plat was acknowledged before Esquire Asa Elliott,.. X^^Z^^^ GEOEGETOWN TOWNSHIP. 513 June 5, and contained only four blocks of eight lots each. The onlvtwo streets were State street, running north and south, and West streetcrossing it at right angles. These streets were sixty feet wide. Thepublic square, which remains to the present time as it was then, waslaid out after the fashion of the day, as seen in Danville and othertowns of that age, by cutting corners out of the four central naming seems to be problematical,— some asserting that Mr. Ha-worth named it for his son George, who was a cripple, and who is saidto have entered into the frolic which was made on the opening day,with a spirit that indicated something more than lemonade straight;others, that Danville having been named for D.
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