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Community of Covell History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Shirley and Covell are the two incorporated towns in the [Dale] township, both supplied with stores, churches and elevators. ["Official souvenir program, McLean County Centennial, Aug. 27, 28, 30, 1930" by: McLean County Illinois Centennial Souvenir Program Committee, Harold Lang and Eugene Funk] Only other community of Dale Township is the small hamlet of Covell, with a population of thirty. It is located northwest of Shirley on the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad. Covell was platted in 1867 by John L. Rowell. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

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