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Empire Township
Post Offices
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

In 1838, a Post Route was established between Danville, Bloomington and Peoria, passing through LeRoy. A post office was opened in Buck Hotel with Mr. Buck the first postmaster. At first the mail came by a Post Rider (on horse) then by Fink and Walker "Mud Wagons" which by courtesy were called stages. For a long time this firm ran nearly all the stages in northern Illinois and Indiana. [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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