A Gazetteer of Illinois, in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of Each County, and a Particular Description of Each Town, Settlement, Stream, Prairie, Bottom, Bluff, etc.; Alphabetically Arranged

by J. M. Peck

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Gazetteers are wonderful, compact encyclopedias that provide detailed information about a specific place at a specific time. For family history researchers, gazetteers can hold the key to an ancestral mystery in their wealth of material relating to dates,

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Canonical title
A Gazetteer of Illinois, in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of Each County, and a Particular Description of Each Town, Settlement, Stream, Prairie, Bottom, Bluff, etc.; Alphabetically Arranged
Original publication date
1837
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Illinois, USA

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Nonfiction, Travel, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
917.73History & geographyGeography & travelGeography of and travel in North AmericaMidwestern U.S.Illinois
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F539 .P36Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaUnited States local historyIllinois
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