Alexander County, Illinois (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 21.
ALEXANDER COUNTY, in the extreme south part of Illinois, situated at the junction of Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Length 23 miles; mean breadth about 17, with an area of 390 square miles. The surface along the borders of the rivers is flat and low, so much so that considerable tracts are annually overflowed. The general character of the soil is fertile, producing excellent crops. Courts are held at Unity. Pop. in 1830, 1,390; in 1840, 3,313; in 1850, 2,484.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

David Wilmot, detail

Scanned by
John Osborne, Dickinson College
Scan date
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
Yes
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
David Wilmot. (After a Lithograph by M. H. Traubel)
Source citation
John G. Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln; A History (n.p. Century, c1886), 127.
Source note
Bound series of articles that had appeared in the Century Magazine. Copy in the Dickinson College Special Collections.

David Wilmot

Scanned by
John Osborne, Dickinson College
Scan date
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
David Wilmot. (After a Lithograph by M. H. Traubel)
Source citation
John G. Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln; A History (n.p. Century, c1886), 127.
Source note
Bound series of articles that had appeared in the Century Magazine. Copy in the Dickinson College Special Collections.
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