The Elsberry Milling Co. was founded in 1880 to deal in grain and manufacture flour. The mills location was chosen because the area was known for producing high-grade, soft red wheat. The nearby railway supported this as a wheat buying station. . . . — — Map (db m156319) HM
Erected to perpetuate
the memory of the men and
women of this community
who answered their country's
call to colors and dedicated
to those who made the
supreme sacrifice — — Map (db m156324) WM
Troy, laid out on the site of Woods' Fort in 1819, lies on an old Sac and Fox Indian campsite where first settlers Joseph Cottle and Zadock Woods built their cabins, 1801. It was the Sac and Fox tribes, outraged by their 1804 land cession which . . . — — Map (db m138510) HM
This marks the site of
Woods Fort
where the settlers gathered
for protection from the
Indians in the War of 1812.
It was the headquarters
of Lieut. (afterwords President)
Zachary Taylor. — — Map (db m140746) HM
Dedicated to
the more than one
thousand volunteers
who came from all
over the nation to
help in the clean-up
of the "Great Flood"
July of 1993
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