Mercer County, IL

Headnote
MERCER COUNTY, situated on the west boundary of Illinois, with the Mississippi river on the west. Area, 550 square miles. Seat of justice, Millersburgh. Pop. in 1840, 2,352; in 1850, 5,246. (Fanning's, 1853)
Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
Illinois

Mercer County, Illinois (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
MERCER COUNTY, situated on the west boundary of Illinois, with the Mississippi river on the west.  Area, 550 square miles.  Seat of justice, Millersburgh.  Pop. in 1840, 2,352; in 1850, 5,246.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 217.
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In Illinois, three mothers and four of their children die in a freezing river when their sleigh overturns Crime/Disasters
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