Filmed on Saturday, November 4 2023, I drive around Clinton, IL to see what's going on.
The city and the county are named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York, 1817-1823.
The city was founded in 1835 by Jesse W. Fell of Bloomington, Illinois, a land speculator and lawyer, and James Allen, a representative in the Illinois State Legislature. The two men were on their way from Decatur, Illinois back to Bloomington after a business trip and stopped to rest their horses on the open prairie halfway between the two cities. It occurred to them that this was an ideal location for a settlement, as there was nothing else nearby. They named the town in honor of DeWitt Clinton.
Abraham Lincoln practiced law in the area in the 1850s. He was not a trained lawyer, but lawyers were scarce in the area at the time.
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24 дек 2023
