Village of

G A L T


Whiteside County Illinois


The village of Galt was laid out and platted in January, 1855, by John Galt and others. It is on the southwest quarter of section 24, and consists of twenty blocks. There are now twenty-five dwellings, four business houses, a warehouse, cheese factory, elevator, blacksmith shop, and lumber yard, besides the depot and other buildings of the Ohicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, and the large school house, in the upper story of which is the Town Hall.

The Galt Cheese Manufacturing Company was organized October 22, 1873, with a capital stock of $3,100. The main building of the factory is 60 x 30 feet, with an addition 16 by 24 feet, and a house over the well 6 by 6 feet. The officers of the Company are, William Pratt, President, and Robert A. Galt, Treasurer and General Superintendent. About sixty thousand pounds of cheese are made annually.

The population of the village in 1877, is estimated at two hundred.

Bent-Wilson History of Whiteside County

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