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Bellflower Township History
Railroads
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

The Havana, Rantoul & Eastern Narrow Guage Railroad, built in 1578, runs from west to east, angling across three sections of the west half, and on the half section line of the remaining 'three sections. leaving the town line at the center of Section 36. Lorette is the name of a station recently established on that road, east of its crossing of the Illinois Central. Business has not begun to tower up at Lorette yet. but the narrow-gaugers propose to buy some corn there in the future. [The History of McLean County, Illinois, Chicago: W. LeBaron Jr. & Co., 1879]

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