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Community of Mount Hope History
McLean County, Illinois

"Official souvenir program, McLean County Centennial, Aug. 27, 28, 30, 1930"
by: McLean County Illinois Centennial Souvenir Program Committee, Harold Lang and Eugene Funk

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

A band of settlers from Rhode Island in 1835 ... entered 14,000 acres of land and platted the village of Mt. Hope, each settler receiving a share of the land. But hard times and troubles of pioneering discouraged most of the colonists and they returned east. When the C. & A. railroad was built, the village of Mt. Hope was abandoned and the town of McLean located a few miles away on the railroad.

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