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Community of LeRoy
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McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

C. D. Jones and Frank Crumbaugh had the first two filling stations in LeRoy. The gasoline tanks were kept inside and they brought the gasoline out in buckets and poured it into the cars. C. D. Jones and A. H. Morris were given permission by the City Council on July 8, 1910 to put gasoline tanks in the streets and alleys tor storage and sale purposes. Later, Ed Wirt hauled and delivered to the rural area two barrels of gasoline at a time, each containing 55 gallons, in a spring wagon, for the F. Crumbaugh Oil Co. Legal and financial obstacles were cleared in October, 1951 for the Union Gas and Electric Company of Bloomington to construct its 35-mile natural gas main to serve LeRoy, Farmer City, Bloomington and Normal. LeRoy natural gas customers are now served by Northern Illinois Gas Company. [Heritage of the prairie : a history of LeRoy and of Empire and West townships, McLean County, Illinois (1976) LeRoy Historical Society; LeRoy Bi-Centennial Commission]

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