Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . inside doors, and in the meanwhile big fires were kept burning dayand night. As the newer family, we were able to add many comforts to thegeneral store. There were too many of us to be lonely or low-spirited, and inspite of hardships, we were not unhappy. Mr. John Kellar had bought thefarm adjoining his brothers, and gradually we came to know other neighbors,all of whom were most kind. Nevertheless it was a dreadful winter. The intense cold set in on the 15thof November, 1835, a full month sooner
Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . inside doors, and in the meanwhile big fires were kept burning dayand night. As the newer family, we were able to add many comforts to thegeneral store. There were too many of us to be lonely or low-spirited, and inspite of hardships, we were not unhappy. Mr. John Kellar had bought thefarm adjoining his brothers, and gradually we came to know other neighbors,all of whom were most kind. Nevertheless it was a dreadful winter. The intense cold set in on the 15thof November, 1835, a full month sooner than was anticipated, and found noone prepared for it. Provisions were scarce not only with us but in the stores,and the Illinois river, the only highway to the base of supplies, was frozen soon fell to a greater depth than had ever been known before and ren-dered the country roads well nigh impassable while it was fresh and entirelyso when it turned to mud and slush. At the new house it sifted through everycrevice and it was no raritv to shake several inches of snow oft our beds in. KEY TO THE PICTURE OF PEORIA IN folloiving named places are represented as follo7vs: a. The foot of Ferry Street and the ferry, since called Bridge Street and the bridge. b. Orin Hamlins flour mill. c. The first court house. d. The first home of Charles Ballance. e. A. S. Coles warehouse. Between Coles warehouse and Ballances first home, in Water Street and in Liberty Street, fully filling both of them, wasFort Clark at a former day. f. Curtenius & Griswolds general store. g. Sloughs, or Union Hotel. h. First two brick Iniildings erected in Peoria. i. Clinton House. j. Asahel Hales home. k. Detweillers Hotel. 1. \ oris Bros. general store. m. A. S. Coles store in 1843. n. Farmers Hotel. o. The notorious Whig flagstafif in 1844. p. The old court house. q. Old Hamilton Street Iaptist Church, now the site of the county jail. r. The old Peoria House. s. John Rankins flour mill. t. T
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