Township Number 1, North of the Baseline, Range No. 5 West of the 2nd or 3rd? Principal Meridian
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"Standing on the edge of the Looking-glass Prairie, it was on the trail which connected Vincennes with St. Louis, the route followed later by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway when it crossed Illinois. The district attracted various sorts of settlers. The earliest seem to have been mostly from Tennessee and the South, but there was a contingent from the Atlantic seaboard. A number of Mennonites settled a few miles to the south, and in the revolutionary troubles of 1848, many German refugees made their homes in and around Lebanon and the Looking glass Prairie."
"About ten miles east of St. Louis, the bottom-land which fringes the Mississippi river gives place to fine rolling country. So strikingly beautiful at certain seasons of the year was this magnificent expanse of meadow-land that travelers named it the Looking-glass Prairie. Under this name Dickens has made it famous wherever his writings are known and read." [Source]
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