UNITY

UNITY

Alexander County/Illinois Genealogy Trails

Unity, the second county seat of Alexander County, was laid out in 1833. A court house was erected and a jail and a few houses for officers of the county and residences were put up. In 1837 William Hamby, Lemuel B. Lisenbee and John Hodges contracted to build the court house for the sum of $270. It had a slow-going kind of existence, which moved along until 1842, when the court house and many of the county records were burned. Its location was near the geographical center of the county, and about equi-distant from the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. When the county seat was moved from Unity to Thebes, its growth and prosperity were stunted.
--Sources: HISTORY OF ALEXANDER, UNION AND PULASKI COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, edited by William Henry Perrin, 1883, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publisher, 183 Lake St.

Unity, a small village, is located on Illinois Route 127 between Tamms and Cairo.

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