For many years Butterfield Trail was one of the main routes from East Central Illinois to the Chicago area. In 1831 Ben Butterfield marked out the rail from Danville to Lockport where he had settled the previous year. The trail crossed Spring Creek . . . — — Map (db m164819) HM
Erected in 1997 by the people of
Concord Township and
the Village of Iroquois
in memory of
the men and women who
served in the Armed Forces and
in hope for the veterans of the future — — Map (db m97329) WM
In 1822, Gurdon S. Hubbard,
on this spot, built an
Indian Trading Post and
operated it until 1834.
Here the Indian Princess
Watchee-Kee lived with
Hubbard, as his wife. — — Map (db m96050) HM
Built in Nov. 1881, according to history, the jail was built because a second
saloon was coming to “Bunkum”. The town fathers decided a “cooler” was
needed for “wicked people who came from other places to disturb . . . — — Map (db m97331) HM
Panel One
W. W. I
Row One
John Adams Sherman Adsit Roy Adwell G. W. Akerly Ralph Austin + Forrest Ballard Elmer Barkhurst Homer Beall, Sr. Jesse Bennet Reed Berryman Willard Black Edward Blanken Henry . . . — — Map (db m41407) WM
This tablet, erected in the Spring of 1936, marks the Old Hubbard Trail, which forded Sugar Creek at this point. In this angle of ground between the ford and the trail there stood 100 years ago a pioneer grist mill. Thus giving the name the Mill . . . — — Map (db m17873) HM
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Rodney F. Reeves
1958 - 1981
His love for Milford was shown by his labors in retrieving and restoring this Buzz Bomb to its original place in our community. — — Map (db m17969) HM
