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Community of Fletcher History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Two villages were started [in Blue Mound Township] when the branch of the Illinois Central railroad was built in 1884, they being Cooksville and Fletcher. ["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 Blue Mound Township is the small settlement of Fletcher, also located on the Illinois Central Railroad. It is named after John Fletcher, an early farmer of the area. At one time he owned 600 acres here. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

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