Erwin
Erwin is a small village near the banks of Crooked Creek, on the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 26, and was laid out by Columbus C. Meeks, and the plat and survey were made by County Surveyor, Leonidas Horney, on the 27th of March 1860. Columbus C. Meeks built, of hewed log, the first house, in 1856, and kept the first store and first blacksmith shop, was the first justice of the peace and first postmaster, when a post-office was established in 1856. The first school-house built in the village was a neat frame, erected in 1866, and the first teacher was James Bliss. It is still in use, there being a term of six months each year. They have no church building, but there is a religious sect calling themselves “The Holiness Band.” The present business is confined to a General Store, Eugene Mallory; Groceries and Postmaster, J. T. Stofer; Blacksmith, William Conn. The town has never been organized as a village.
Excerpted from The Combined History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, 1882
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