There is considerable timber along the margin of these streams, embracing among the varieties the different kinds of oaks, ash, sugar maple, walnut and Other streams are Whitley and Asa's creeks, which are tributaries of the Okaw. The chief streams which water and drain the township are the OkawĪnd West Okaw rivers. There are 41,588 acres of land, valued by the last assessment at $496,157 7,360 acres of which is unimproved. It is situated in the central and southern portions bounded north by Lovington, east by Jonathan creck, and east Nelson, south by Whitley and Shelby counties, and west by Shelby count This was the earliest township formed, and the largest in the county. That it was successful, was owing to the dauntless and persevering energy of the first settlers for it was no enviable task to clear the forest, break the prairie, anĭ undergo the hardships incident to genuine pioneer life. St laid out, and a few years prior to that date would take us beyond the time when the first white settler had trodden upon its site to the time when it constituted part of a dreary wilderness, before civilization had penetrated its solitary bosom, or thĮ voice of the pioneer echoed amid its timbered shade. A retrospection of thirty-five years would carry us back to the time when the city was fir THE HISTORY of the early settlement and subsequent progress and development of the township and city of Sullivan presents many features that are interesting. The History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois
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