WARRENSBURG In mini township, has grown up within the last few years, since the construction of the Pekin, Lincoln & Decatur Railroad. As a point for the shipment of grain and stock it is destined to be of very considerable commercial importance. [Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 232.] Warrensburg. This village was platted in 1872 on land owned by J. K. Warren; town assumed his name. There are in the village three general stores, one drug store, two restaurants, two hotels, one lumber yard, two elevators, one harness shop, two livery barns, one barber shop, one paper, "The Warrensburg Times," a Methodist church, a Congregational church, a Church of God, also a four-room school house. The population is 600. The village is located eight miles northwest of Decatur on a ridge overlooking the country to the north and northwest for many miles. For a picturesque site there is none in the county its equal. The village supports two doctors. [Past and present of the City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois. 1903. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. p. 70. Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.] HOME ©2008 Genealogy Trails