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Macon County occupies nearly 600 square miles of fertile farmland in the geographic center of Illinois. Abraham Lincoln made his first Illinois home here, on a pleasant bluff overlooking the Sangamon River, near presentday Harristown. On May 10, 1860, he was first nominated for the presidency in Decatur, the county seat. During the World War I era, Macon County boasted over a dozen hamlets and villages, including Warrensburg and Maroa, which both enjoyed opera houses and busy train stations. Maroa was home to John Crocker, who became a famous banker, while nearby Forsyth produced Black Bart, the infamous bank robber. After World War II, Decatur became known as the soybean capital of the world. And today, agricultural and industrial workers depend on one another, growing and processing the corn and soybeans that have made Macon County a self-sustaining economic engine.
Excerpt from The Macon County, Illinois: An Up-to-Date Historical Narrative With County Map and Many Unique Aerial Photographs of Cities, Towns, Villages and Farmsteads Mt. Zion (mt. Zion, Hervey City) Niantic Township (niantic) Oakley Township (oakley, Sangamon) Pleasant View Township (blue Hound) South Macon Township (kocon City) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A mysterious invitation arrives in the mailboxes of nine women from farming community in central Illinois. Who could have sent this message and for what purpose? So begins the story of a group of fun-loving wives and mothers who shared their hopes, triumphs and sorrows as recorded in this memoir of a by-gone era.